Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 13 Issue 4

The role of motivation to learn in management education

Gail Kinman, Russell Kinman

As they seek to develop a culture of “lifelong learning”, many UK companies are providing “in‐house” education and training for their employees. Some programmes make use of the…

Competencies and workplace learning: some reflections on the rhetoric and the reality

Thomas N. Garavan, David McGuire

The use of competency frameworks as a basis for workplace learning initiatives is now relatively commonplace in organisations. This is reflected in the emphasis given to…

Some intervening and local factors among shift workers in a developing country – Bangladesh

M. Rabiul Ahasan, Donna Campbell, Alan Salmoni, John Lewko

Shift work can be seen as one of the many factors and conditions associated with the health, safety, and wellbeing of industrial workers. Social, cultural and emotional quality…

Staff meetings: an opportunity for accelerated training of employees

Sherry A. Pattison

This article describes how the author incorporated accelerated training techniques into weekly staff meetings, which speeded up staff training, made the training more effective…

Labouring to Learn: Union Renewal in Swedish Manufacturing

Mike Brown