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Maier, Anmarie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Corporations need a skilled workforce that can quickly develop new competencies in order to master the latest demands of their work environments. Because a college degree has a shelf-life of less than two years and many skills last even less at 12 to 18 months (Meister, 1998), businesses have begun constructing their own in-house universities to…
Descriptors: Expectation, Theories, Employee Attitudes, Motivation
Schmitt, Catherine A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the history of workforce education, corporate university development models in both literature and practice, and the evolution of the next generation of corporate universities. It traces workforce education from indentured servants in Europe during the Middle Ages, to the sophisticated corporate universities that…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Universities, Labor Force Development, Educational History