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The Role of Participation in Training in the Relationship between Informal Learning and Its Antecedents
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Flávia Lucena Barbosa; Jairo Eduardo Borges-Andrade – International Journal of Training and Development, 2025
We investigated the relationships between Participation in Training, Informal Learning Behaviours (ILBs), and their dispositional (Readiness to Learn) and situational (Workplace Interaction and Autonomy) antecedents. Aiming to produce findings with greater reproducibility and generality, we used secondary data from 34 countries participating in…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, International Programs, Training, Program Development
Developing Transversal Skills in Higher Education in Finland
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Eija Raatikainen; Jyrki Konkka; Katriina Rantala-Nenonen – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore Master of Social Services students' (MSS) thoughts of transversal skills in higher education studies and working life practice. Transversal skills are general skills that are transferable from field to field. For instance, transversal skills can promote individuals' employability in the labor market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Higher Education, Masters Programs
A Person-Centered Study of Construction Sector Workers' Goal Orientation Profiles and Their Connections to Approaches to Learning, Self-Efficacy, and Work Engagement
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Ilmari J. A. Puhakka; Markku Niemivirta; Liisa Postareff; Petri Nokelainen – Vocations and Learning, 2025
This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate construction workers' learning at work, focusing on their approaches to learning, self-efficacy beliefs and work engagement and how these vary according to their goal orientation profiles. Survey data were collected from Finnish construction sector employees (N = 1,280) in June 2021. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Building Trades, Skilled Workers