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Teaching Research Skills to Vocational Learners: Teaching Chefs to Research
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Zhen, Willa – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
This article focuses on teaching and mentoring course-based undergraduate research in a vocationally focused higher education setting. At the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), students are immersed in hands-on experiential classes. Their education begins with basic culinary techniques, and they gradually progress toward more specialized cooking…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Vocational Education, Food Service, Service Occupations
Effects of Team Unlearning on Employee Creativity: The Mediating Effect of Individual Reflection
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Matsuo, Makoto – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: Although unlearning is considered an essential step for creativity, little is known about the relationship between team unlearning and employee creativity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of individual reflection between team unlearning and employee creativity. Design/methodology/approach: The research…
Descriptors: Creativity, Manufacturing, Employees, Reflection
Three Essays on Chinese IT Service Industry: Capability Development, Internationalization Strategy, and Cultural Templates
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Su, Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Leading Chinese technology firms, from automobile manufacturer to information service provider, are evolving into some of the world's most innovative and competitive players, and dramatically changing the global business landscape. What underlies the rise of these firms is China's national strategy of transforming itself from a low-cost…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Service Occupations, Industry, Information Technology
Toward a High-Wage, High-Productivity Service Sector. Background Paper: Service Sector Wages, Productivity and Job Creation in the U.S. and Other Countries.
Thurow, Lester; Waldstein, Louise – 1989
This document contains two essays: "Toward a High-Wage, High-Productivity Service Sector" by Lester Thurow; and "Service Sector Wages, Productivity and Job Creation in the U.S. and Other Countries" by Louise Waldstein. The first essay analyzes the recent and currrent U.S. economy under headings called Growth Nodes, Falling…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Economic Climate, Economics, Employment Patterns
Employment Profile of the Service Sector in Selected Countries.
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Bednarzik, Robert W. – 1989
The rise of the service sector is a major trend common to all western, industrialized countries. Employment in the service sector has increased in 1960-1986 in all 10 countries participating in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation Human Resources project (Japan, Belgium, France,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis
Changes in Work Patterns: A Synthesis of Five National Reports on the Service Sector. France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the United States.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1989
An analysis of the service sector in five countries (France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) was made through synthesis of earlier research on work patterns in the countries. Some of the findings and issues discovered concerned the following: (1) the heterogeneity of the service sector; (2) the progress of part-time work; (3)…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Employment Patterns