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Thompson, Kevin S. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2016
Since more than $140 Billion is invested annually on employee learning and development in the U.S (Harward, 2014) it is important that training leads to improved job performance. Millennials, who comprise the latest employee generation, are age 18-37 (Tyler, 2007) and share the same performance requirements and expectations of the generations that…
Descriptors: Preferences, Workplace Learning, Qualitative Research, Private Sector
Billett, Stephen; Henderson, Amanda; Choy, Sarojni; Dymock, Darryl; Kelly, Ann; Smith, Ray; James, Ian; Beven, Fred; Lewis, Jason – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Continuing education and training is an emerging priority for the nation's tertiary education and training system. Changing work, new work requirements, an ageing workforce and lengthening working lives are some of the factors now influencing this priority. Yet, many of the purposes and processes of the Australian tertiary education and training…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Continuing Education, Postsecondary Education, Education Work Relationship
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Billett, Stephen – Vocations and Learning, 2008
Individuals' dispositions have long been held to direct and energise cognition in ways that shape how they experience and respond to events in the social world. Therefore, a consideration of these dispositions is likely to be helpful in understanding the inter-psychological processes between individual and social world that frame contemporary…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Workplace Learning, Cosmetology, Social Experience