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Jonyo, Bonn Odera; Ouma, Caren; Mosoti, Zachary – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions in the realm of key human development indicators, produces less than 1 percent of the global research output despite having 12.5 percent of the global population. If the region is to improve on its human capital development indicators, it must embrace action research in addressing the many developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Private Colleges, Universities
Williams, Sandra L.; Hurley, Mark N. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2017
In this second segment of HRD in a developing country situation, accelerated pressure for organizational growth is placed upon leaders by the international board of directors. This growth pressure is accompanied by new technology which can assist in growth accomplishment, but which demands further training and orientation of cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Tam, Steven; Gray, David E. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to relate the practice of organisational learning in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the organisational life cycle (OLC), contextualising the differential aspects of an integrated relationship between them. Design/methodology/approach: It is a mixed-method study with two consecutive phases. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Development, Workplace Learning, Small Businesses
Hale, Richard; Saville, Martin – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2014
In the UK, the Civil Service Reform Plan is being implemented with urgency. This requires Civil Service departments and agencies to reform their structures and ways of working in order to deliver effective services in a climate of economic austerity and rapid social and technological change. Historically, Human Resource (HR) professionals have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Human Resources, Government Employees
Chadwick, Clint; Way, Sean A.; Kerr, Gerry; Thacker, James W. – Personnel Psychology, 2013
Although a few published, multiindustry, firm-level, empirical studies have linked systems of high-investment or high-performance human resource management practices to enhanced small-firm performance, this stream of strategic human resource management research is underdeveloped and equivocal. Accordingly, in this study, we use a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Small Businesses, Industry, Labor
Baert, Herman; Govaerts, Natalie – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: With the intention of detecting and describing a series of team learning patterns within a selection of organisations, an extensive exploratory and qualitative research project was conducted in seven phases. The study at hand aims to report on the most recent phase, namely eight case studies in the public employment service of Flanders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Organizational Development, Pattern Recognition
Karimi, Asef; Malekmohamadi, Iraj; Daryani, Mahmoud Ahmadpour; Rezvanfar, Ahmad – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2011
Purpose: This study seeks to build a conceptual model of agricultural extension intrapreneurship that discusses the concept and phenomenon of intrapreneurship as well as its prerequisites and outcomes. The proposed model is intended to depict the main factors that affect the phenomena of intrapreneurship within the agricultural extension…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Prerequisites, Foreign Countries, Human Resources
Hamlin, Bob; Stewart, Jim – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2011
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to present the findings of a definitional review and comparative study of HRD definitions. It also reports the results of comparing and contrasting a synthesis of the "intended purposes" and "processes" constituting these definitions against various definitions and conceptualisations of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence, Definitions, Literature Reviews
Akella, Devi – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2010
Organisations worldwide have acknowledged the connection between corporate learning, development and business sustainability. Emphasis is being laid on creating and designing a learning organisation "that is skilled at creating, acquiring, interpreting, transferring and retaining knowledge" [Garvin, (2000), p.32]. Extensive literature…
Descriptors: Ideology, Criticism, Foreign Countries, Organizational Development
Mavor, Penny; Sadler-Smith, Eugene; Gray, David E. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine conceptual and theoretical links between intuition and coaching; investigate accomplished coaches' practical experiences of intuition; identify skill set of an intuitive coach; discuss implications of findings for coaches', HRD professionals', and line managers' learning and development.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intuition, Labor Force Development, Teaching Methods
McDonald, Claire – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2009
This article examines one specific organisational development tool in depth and uses a case study to investigate whether using the tool is more than a tick-box exercise and really can add value and help organisations to develop and improve. The People Management Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) is used to examine higher education institutions' (HEIs)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Case Studies, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Organizational Development
Nair, Chenicheri Sid; Pawley, David; Mertova, Patricie – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to report on how an Administrative Division at a research-intensive Australian university utilised feedback data from the Learning and Growth Survey, to initiate changes. Design/methodology/approach: This paper refers to the actions taken by the Administrative Division to the results obtained from the Learning and Growth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Surveys, College Administration
Short, Tom; Harris, Roger – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
Modern organisations have become more complex, less mechanistic and increasingly sensitive to rapid changes in the external environment than in previous eras. Today, executives lead employees through a maze of complexity and changing contexts. However, another group of dedicated professionals, the human resource managers and practitioners, also…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Strategic Planning
Smith, Andrew; Courvisanos, Jerry; Tuck, Jacqueline; McEachern, Steven – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This report examines the link between human resource management practices and innovation. It is based on a conceptual framework in which "human resource stimuli measures"--work organisation, working time, areas of training and creativity--feed into innovative capacity or innovation. Of course, having innovative capacity does not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Creativity, Human Capital
Kim, Kyong-Jee; Bonk, Curtis; Teng, Ya-Ting – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
This article reports survey findings related to the current status and future trends of blended learning in workplace learning settings from diverse cultures. This particular survey was conducted of 674 training and human resource development professionals from five different countries, mostly from the Asia-Pacific region (i.e., China, South…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Human Resources