Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 54 Issue 1

Designing diversity training program for business executives

Anita Sarkar

In today’s corporate world, effective management of diversity is a critical business and social imperative. This paper aims to identify relevant issues connected to diversity…

A tool for analysing organisational clans and tribes: the case of the transformation of Medellin city, Colombia

Manuela Escobar-Sierra, Felipe Calderón-Valencia

Organisational clans and tribes are entities that prescribe the behaviour of collaborators on the basis of cultural values and norms. Consequently, this study aims to propose a…

The Kirkpatrick model for training evaluation: bibliometric analysis after 60 years (1959–2020)

Aljawharah Alsalamah, Carol Callinan

A number of studies on Kirkpatrick’s four-level training evaluation model have been published, since its inception in 1959, either investigating it or applying it to evaluate the…

The influence of altruistic leadership behavior and learning culture on work–family relationship in Chinese SMEs

Lei Xie, Shaoping Qiu, Mary Jo Garcia Biggs

This study aims to examine the relationship between supervisor’s altruistic leadership behavior (ALB) and family-to-work development (FWD) in the context of Chinese small and…

The Greek life-long learning centers in the post-debt crisis era: evaluation of the effectiveness of mentoring in adult trainers training

Nick Dukakis, Angeliki Chasioti, Efthymios Valkanos, Miltiadis Staboulis, Iosif Fragkoulis

The purpose of this paper is to explore the views of Greek Life-Long Learning Centers (LLLCs) trainers, who worked as educational managers and took on informal mentoring roles in…

Work-life enablers for job satisfaction in healthcare: moderating role of organization type

Sumbul Zaman, Amirul Hasan Ansari, Shakti Chaturvedi

This paper aims to examine how the quality of work-life (QWL) factors influence job satisfaction and tests if organization type moderates this relationship.

Millennials in the workplace: perceived supervisor support, work–life balance and employee well–being

Hamidah Nabawanuka, Emre Burak Ekmekcioglu

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between perceived supervisor support (PSS), work–life balance (WLB) and employee well-being (EW) of millennial employees…

Using role play to develop an empathetic mindset in executive education

Siu Loon Hoe, Tamsin Greulich-Smith

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of a role play activity as part of an experiential instructional strategy to develop an empathetic mindset among…

Twenty-five years of career growth literature: a review and research agenda

Roopa Modem, Sethumadhavan Lakshminarayanan, Rajasekharan Pillai, Nandan Prabhu

The dynamic career scenario and the significant change from traditionally placing careers in employers’ hands to self-managing one’s careers have sparked profound scholarly…

An operational conceptualization of human resource analytics: implications for in human resource development

Yeling Jiang, Mesut Akdere

The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of the concept of human resource analytics (HRA) and propose an operational framework demonstrating the sources generating…