Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 29 Issue 6

Professional/Peer-learning community: Impacts on workplace training at Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) schools

Kongkiti Peter Phusavat, David Delahunty, Pekka Kess, Hanna Kropsu-Vehkapera

The study aims to examine the issues relating to workplace learning at the upper secondary school level. This study is based on the two questions. How should the…

Accounting for activity development through perspectives in an inbound call centre

Maria Ianeva, Jacqueline Vacherand-Revel, Christian Licoppe

This paper aims to address the methodological and conceptual challenges arising from the use of activity theory as a theoretical framework in empirical studies of work.

What determines the performance of small business units?: Insights from a jewellery cluster

Bino Paul GD, Anantha Padhmanabha Achar, Krishna Muniyoor, Venkatesh Murthy R.

This paper aims to investigate the factors that determine the performance of small business units using a field survey conducted in a small jewellery cluster in Mangalore district…

Dealing with organizational silos with communities of practice and human resource management

Riitta Forsten-Astikainen, Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Tuija Lämsä, Pia Heilmann, Elina Hyrkäs

Organizational silos that build on the existing organizational structures are often considered to have negative effects in the form of focus on private narrow objectives and…

Learning strategies at work and professional development

Hannah Deborah Haemer, Jairo Eduardo Borges-Andrade, Simone Kelli Cassiano

This paper aims to investigate the prediction of current and evolutionary perceptions of professional development through five learning strategies at work and through training and…