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Douglas-Lenders, Rachel Claire; Holland, Peter Jeffrey; Allen, Belinda – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of experiential simulation-based learning of employee self-efficacy. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research approach is an exploratory case study of a group of trainees from the same organisation. Using a quasi-experiment, one group, pre-test-post-test design (Tharenou et al., 2007), a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Experiential Learning, Construction Industry, Simulation
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Ha, Tak S. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
In the knowledge economy, many companies are well aware of the vital need to maintain the professional expertise of their workers at a high level. Though there have been a lot of research studies in the areas of professional expertise and workplace learning, few examined the learning pathways novice workers went through to become experts in their…
Descriptors: Expertise, Knowledge Economy, Professional Development, Workplace Learning
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Enninful, Ebenezer Kofi; Boakye-Amponsah, Abraham; Osei-Poku, Patrick – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The printing industry is supposed to be a major contributor to Ghana's development through employment creation and the enhancement of information to the general public. The main purpose of the study was to assess employee motivation on the printing industry within Kumasi Metropolis. The study employed both the quantitative and qualitative surveys…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employees, Motivation, Printing
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Mavin, Timothy John; Roth, Wolff-Michael – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: This study aims to contribute to current research on team learning patterns. It specifically addresses some negative perceptions of the job performance learning pattern. Design/methodology/approach: Over a period of three years, qualitative and quantitative data were gathered on pilot learning in the workplace. The instructional modes…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Case Studies, Aviation Education, Cooperative Learning
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Moorosi, Pontso – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
This article explores the notion of leadership identity construction as it happens through a leadership development programme. Influenced by a conception that leadership development is essentially about facilitating an identity transition, it uses an intersectional approach to explore school leaders' identity construction as it was shaped and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Professional Identity, Educational Experience, Learning Experience
Davenport, Richard W. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A Department of Defense (DoD) M&S education task force is in the process of studying the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) education of the acquisition workforce. Historically, DoD acquisition workforce education is not referred to as education, but rather what the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) refers to as "practitioner training, career…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Validity, Program Effectiveness, Case Studies
Crump, Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of the case study was to explore the effects of a mentor-coach initiative among second, third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers in an urban junior-secondary school in Antigua and Barbuda. The case study design was appropriate, mainly qualitative, but supported by quantitative data collection methods. Twelve participants shared in two…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mentors, Coaching (Performance), Elementary School Teachers