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Anne Karhapää; Raija Hämäläinen; Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Informal workplace learning is an essential part of lifelong learning. In recent years, digital technology has come to play an increasingly important role in enabling informal learning at work through various tools and resources. However, as little empirical research exists on informal learning in this context, more knowledge of digital work…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Work Environment, Teleworking, Informal Education
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Wieslander, Malin – Studies in Continuing Education, 2019
Many organisations declare that the ability for employees to speak out about organisational matters is important for organisational development. However, recent literature reports a widespread fear of retaliation among employees if they express themselves -- especially within the police. The point of departure of the present article is the tension…
Descriptors: Police, Self Expression, Employee Attitudes, Fear
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Brown, Tony; Yasukawa, Keiko; Black, Stephen – Studies in Continuing Education, 2014
A policy consensus has emerged in Australia that there is a workforce literacy and numeracy crisis, similar to many other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. The study informing this paper examined this framing of crisis by interviewing and observing production workers in three manufacturing companies. Each company was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Literacy Education, Numeracy
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Ha, Tak S. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2008
This paper describes a research project investigating the workplace learning experience of information technology (IT) workers in Hong Kong. The research project explored in depth the workplace learning experiences of 65 IT workers from three different work sites. It went beyond the identification of workplace learning methods and resources…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Information Technology, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries