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Barry Elsey – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to reflect on "good practices" in doctoral research supervision and transfer the author's experience to other academics. The author explains the sources of his approach to doctoral research supervision drawing on traditional practice in adult learning and some reference to phenomenology as a "meeting of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Graduate Study
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Alma Whiteley; Christine Price; Rod Palmer – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present adaptive culture structuration, a new approach for theorizing and analyzing culture change and for creating an "adaptive cultural structurated learning environment". Design/methodology/approach: Incorporating a case study in the financial sector the paper explores 12 employees' narrated…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Organizational Change, Employees, Employee Attitudes
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Berg, Morten Emil; Karlsen, Jan Terje – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The focus of this paper is on management training and development. The purpose has been to address how coaching can be applied to learn about leadership tools and what effect this has on management behaviour and development. Design/methodology/approach: This is a qualitative case study of a management development program. The empirical…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Management Development, Leadership, Coaching (Performance)
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Olsson, Annika; Bjoorn, Urban; Jonson, Gunilla – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a retrospective reflection over unconscious, emergent learning among employees of an organization and to suggest how to capture these moments of experiential learning for future organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: Action research in organizations is undertaken in interaction with…
Descriptors: Action Research, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
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Acevedo, Jose M.; Yancey, George B. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the importance of new employee orientation (NEO) programs, the quality of typical NEOs, and how to improve NEOs. Design/methodology/approach: The paper provides a viewpoint of the importance of new employee orientation programs, the quality of typical NEOs, and how to improve NEOs. Findings: Although western…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Staff Orientation, Program Improvement, Educational Quality
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Griffiths, Mark – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: This paper seeks to overview the issues, concerns and challenges relating to internet abuse and internet addiction in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach: Using psychological literature, the paper outlines a number of important and inter-related areas including brief overviews of internet abuse, and the most extreme form of…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Use, Use Studies, Addictive Behavior
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Wallace, Michelle – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2002
Using a variety of perspectives on change and work identity, investigates the learning and development of a workgroup of educators developing online courses. Provides recommendations for sustainable change processes related to technology and educational innovation. (Contains 38 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Learning Processes
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Lines, Rune – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how the way change implemented effects organizational learning. More specifically, we study the relationships between the use of social accounts, participation and organizational learning in the context of strategic change. The use of social accounts and participation are often promoted during…
Descriptors: Management Development, Hypothesis Testing, Educational Change, Organizational Change
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Lindell, Mats; Stenstrom, Marja-Leena – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: This study considers the recently established higher vocational education reforms with Swedish advanced vocational education (AVE) and Finnish polytechnics in terms of organisational structure, the design of workplace learning, and furthermore, what kind of practical implications these new models of learning at work have resulted in.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Vocational Education
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Hill, Roberta; Capper, Phillip; Wilson, Ken; Whatman, Richard; Wong, Karen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how, from 2004-2006, a New Zealand research team experimented with the "change laboratory" learning process to create a new method of government policy development and implementation, referred to as "practice-making". The apple industry in Hawke's Bay was chosen because of the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Industry, Transformative Learning, Learning Processes