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Peer reviewedPhatkathi, Timothy Sizwe – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2002
A participant-observation study in a South African mining company that used self directed work team training identified organizational constraints that hindered training effectiveness: lack of materials, machinery breakdown, decentralized budget, and imposed standards. Miners more often used improvisation and initiative to solve daily problems,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Mining, Organizational Change
