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Kokas, Maria Sarivalas – Performance Improvement, 2010
Still-rising national jobless rates are surpassing 8.9%. This translates to millions of ill-prepared job seekers, raising complex questions about how to manage layoffs. Even if workers receive severance benefits, most struggle with how to move on and find jobs. Rather than focusing primarily on work skills and practices within individual…
Descriptors: Structural Unemployment, Job Layoff, Job Search Methods, Job Applicants
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Wright, David W.; Brauchle, Paul E. – Performance Improvement, 1996
Discusses high-involvement work teams, in which groups of workers participate in improving their work activities; describes how a typical work team progresses through a project; and introduces a systems model of interrelated steps through which teams may progress to solve problems. (LRW)
Descriptors: Improvement, Job Performance, Models, Performance Factors
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Lim, Doo H. – Performance Improvement, 1999
Describes the results of a study of a global company that examined the effect of training design and work environment on the transfer of human resources development training. Presents a model of international transfer of training and discusses organizational factors and cultural differences that affected the transfer of training. (LRW)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Global Approach, Instructional Design