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Amy Cosby; Nicole McDonald; Kristen Lovric – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: To identify a skilled micro-credentialled training pathway for agricultural careers. Design/Methodology/Approach: A survey consisting of open ended and Likert-type ratings questions regarding workforce skills requirements, training priorities and training delivery preferences was administered with 17 agricultural business managers and…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Seasonal Laborers
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Ju, Boreum; Li, Jessica – European Journal of Training and Development, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how training, job tenure and education-job and skills-job matches impact employees' turnover intention by using a representative national sample from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study in which 1,531 individuals were followed from 2003 to 2014. Design/methodology/approach: A…
Descriptors: Tenure, Intention, Employee Attitudes, Labor Turnover
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Park, Sang-Young – Journal of Education and Work, 2013
Korea's developmental skill formation system was shaped in the 1970s by the Korean developmental state that proactively sought rapid Heavy and Chemical Industrialisation as the nation's overarching goal. Vocational education at the upper secondary level and post-school in-company training in particular were strategically nurtured and closely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Knowledge Economy, Political Influences
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van der Heijden, Beatrice I. J. M.; Bakker, Arnold B. – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
This study examines whether jobs that enable competence development and a constructive leadership style enhance workers' employability or career potential through their assumed positive relationship with work-related flow (absorption, work enjoyment, and intrinsic work motivation). The authors conducted an explorative study with 303 pairs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Leadership, Employment Potential
Drake, Pat; Noyes, Andrew; Wake, Geoff – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This article explores the relationship between school mathematics qualifications and the transition into employment. As part of a large-scale, three-year independent evaluation of pilot qualifications in 14-19 school mathematics, all 39 Sector Skills Councils and Employment Skills Boards in the UK were invited to provide evidence regarding their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills
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Lee, Bill; Cassell, Catherine – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: Disparities in learning opportunities endure. This paper aims to investigate whether the learning representative schemes in the UK and New Zealand (NZ) may redress disparate opportunities for learning. Design/methodology/approach: An interview study of UK trade unions' educational officers and an interview study of representatives of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Unions, Vocational Education
Norton, Kent; Rafferty, Mike – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
Work practices in the meat-processing industry have changed in recent years. The industry has moved away from workers dressing a whole carcass towards a chain-based system, with each worker performing a single task along a moving production line. The nature of the meat-processing workforce has also changed. It is no longer dominated by seasonal…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Food Processing Occupations, On the Job Training, Supervision
Saboga, Ana Rute – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2008
This article presents the results of research into how young trainees in the level III apprenticeship system formulate their educational and professional plans, what expectations they have of obtaining socially and professionally recognised qualifications, and in what way enterprises see such training as a strategy for providing human resources…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Vocational Education
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Schmidt, Steven W. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Opportunities for training and development are paramount in decisions regarding employee career choices. Despite the importance, many research studies on job satisfaction do not address satisfaction with workplace training as an element of overall job satisfaction, and many job satisfaction survey instruments do not include a "satisfaction…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Job Training, Correlation, Career Choice
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Poell, Rob F.; Van der Krogt, Ferd J.; Vermulst, A. A.; Harris, Roger; Simons, Michele – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2006
Informal workplace trainers help employees learn what they need to know and do in order to get their job done. Little is known about the actions of informal workplace trainers, who may be colleagues or supervisors. This study provides an empirical basis for actions undertaken by informal workplace trainers. A total of 350 Australian enterprises…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Job Skills, Foreign Countries, On the Job Training
Canadian Vocational Journal, 1975
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
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Lo, Leslie N. K.; Lai, Manhong; Xiao, Jin – Teachers College Record, 2005
This article examines the skills, development needs, and learning opportunities of the workforce in the city of Shanghai in the People's Republic of China. It attempts to elucidate the factors that influence employees' participation in workplace training and adult education activities. By tapping the views of firm executives and employees, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Informal Education, Adult Education
Swedish Inst., Stockholm. – 1990
About 50 percent of Sweden's adult population pursues studies in one form or another. A specifically Scandinavian form of adult education is the folk high school. The largest number of adult learners attend the study circles organized by the local branches of Sweden's educational associations. Formal adult education is offered by the local…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Corporate Education, Developed Nations
Bas, Daniel – 1988
Asking how to enrich on-the-job-training and, in particular, the traditional apprenticeship system in Africa without unduly burdening employers or smothering this system that is firmly rooted in African culture and is particularly well-suited to the conditions of African life, this document concludes that it is necessary to improve the skills of…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Craft Workers, Developing Nations
Bassi, Laurie J.; McMurrer, Daniel P. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2006
Human capital--the productive capacity that is embedded in people--is one of the most important contributors to the growth in nations' output and standard of living. Globalisation and technological change have increased the importance of human capital in recent years, to the point that there are now only two options to sustain high profits and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Employer Attitudes, Developed Nations
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