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Publication date: 12 June 2017

Daniel Bishop

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which organisational context and individual agency interact (co-participate) to shape the workplace learning of graduate…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which organisational context and individual agency interact (co-participate) to shape the workplace learning of graduate trainee accountants, and to examine the role of firm size in conditioning this interaction.

Design/methodology/approach

A qualitative, comparative approach was used, involving interviews with 20 respondents across two large and three small accountancy firms in England.

Findings

Differences in individual learner biographies and trajectories generate divergent dispositions with regard to workplace learning. In turn, these dispositions influence the extent to which the generally less formal learning environment of the small firm is interpreted either positively or negatively.

Research limitations/implications

Further research is needed on processes of agency/context interaction across a wider range of organisational and professional environments.

Practical implications

Individual dispositions play an important role in determining the optimal approach towards professional development in practice.

Originality/value

The paper offers a novel insight into how variations in both context and agency – and the relationship between them – can generate significant divergences in the professional learning process.

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Education + Training, vol. 59 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 20 January 2020

Daniel Bishop

The purpose of this paper asks how workplace learning environments change as firm size increases, and how employees respond to this. In doing so, it looks beyond an exclusive…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper asks how workplace learning environments change as firm size increases, and how employees respond to this. In doing so, it looks beyond an exclusive focus on formal training and incorporates more informal, work-based learning processes.

Design/methodology/approach

The study uses a comparative, qualitative research design, using semi-structured interviews with an under-researched group of workers – waiting for staff in restaurants. The data were collected from six restaurants of different sizes.

Findings

As formally instituted human resource development (HRD) structures expand as firm size increases are more extensive in larger firms, this leaves less room for individual choice and agency in shaping the learning process. This does not inevitably constrain or enhance workplace learning, and can be experienced either negatively or positively by employees, depending on their previous working and learning experiences.

Research limitations/implications

Future research on HRD and workplace learning should acknowledge both formal and informal learning processes and the interaction between them – particularly in small and growing firms. Insights are drawn from the sociomaterial perspective help the authors to conceptualise this formality and informality. Research is needed in a wider range of sectors.

Practical implications

There are implications for managers in small, growing firms, in terms of how they maintain space for informal learning as formal HRD structures expand, and how they support learners who may struggle in less structured learning environments.

Originality/value

The paper extends current understanding of how the workplace learning environment – beyond a narrow focus on “training” – changes as firm size increases.

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European Journal of Training and Development, vol. 44 no. 2/3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2046-9012

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Publication date: 12 December 2017

Libby Bishop and Daniel Gray

The focus of this chapter is the intersection of social media, publication, data sharing, and research ethics. By now there is an extensive literature on the use of social media…

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The focus of this chapter is the intersection of social media, publication, data sharing, and research ethics. By now there is an extensive literature on the use of social media in research. There is also excellent work on challenges of postpublication sharing of social media, primarily focused on legal restrictions, technical infrastructure, and documentation. This chapter attempts to build upon and extend this work by using cases to deepen the analysis of ethical issues arising from publishing and sharing social media data. Publishing will refer to the presentation of data extracts, aggregations, or summaries, while sharing refers to the practice of making the underlying data available postpublication for others to use. It will look at the ethical questions that arise both for researchers (or others) sharing data, and those who are using data that has been made available by others, emphasizing the inherently relational nature of data sharing. The ethical challenges researchers face when considering sharing user-generated content collected from social media platforms are the focus of the cases. The chapter begins by summarizing the general principles of research ethics, then identifies the specific ethical challenges from sharing social media data and positions these challenges in the context of these general principles. These challenges are then analyzed in more detail with cases from research projects that drew upon several different genres of social media. The chapter concludes with some recommendations for practical guidance and considers the future of ethical practice in sharing social media data.

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The Ethics of Online Research
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78714-486-6

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Publication date: 21 November 2008

Daniel Bishop

The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence outlining the ways in which small businesses orientate themselves towards the training market. The primary aim is to…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present empirical evidence outlining the ways in which small businesses orientate themselves towards the training market. The primary aim is to illuminate the factors influencing small firms' (non‐) participation in formal, externally‐provided training.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected via semi‐structured interviews with senior managers, observation and documentary analysis in 25 small firms in South Wales. Follow‐up interviews with employees were conducted in nine of these firms.

Findings

The findings suggest that the small firm's behaviour in relation to the training market is embedded in a complex web of social relations and subjective orientations.

Research limitations/implications

The research focuses upon one specific regional area. In addition, retail organisations were not represented in the sample.

Practical implications

The findings have implications for policy and also for providers of training in terms of the way in which formal training is presented and marketed to small businesses. In particular, the importance of accessing “insider networks” is emphasised.

Originality/value

In highlighting the importance of social and subjective factors in constructing the small firm's behaviour in the training market, the paper goes beyond the narrower, more conventional focus on financial costs and returns.

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Education + Training, vol. 50 no. 8/9
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0040-0912

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Publication date: 12 December 2017

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The Ethics of Online Research
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-486-6

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Publication date: 2 October 2018

The Russian Orthodox Church appears to be losing the struggle to control church institutions in Ukraine, as it contests moves by the Constantinople Patriarchate to grant…

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB238874

ISSN: 2633-304X

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Publication date: 1 May 2005

Isabel Diéguez Castrillón and Ana I. Sinde Cantorna

The aim of this article is to gain insight into some of the factors that determine personnel‐training efforts in companies introducing advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs)…

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The aim of this article is to gain insight into some of the factors that determine personnel‐training efforts in companies introducing advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs). The study provides empirical evidence from a sector with high rates of technological modernisation.

Design/methodology/approach

Ad hoc survey of 90 firms in the manufacturing sector with advanced manufacturing technologies in production processes.

Findings

Managerial decision to develop training is determined by a factor that is extraneous to the investment in new production technologies, that is to say, recruitment policies. As for the existence of a specific training budget, implementation of AMTs does not appear to determine a company's decision to allocate specific budget items to personnel‐training programmes. It is concluded that training policies are strongly influenced by factors outside the inner context of the organisation.

Research limitations/implications

Similar research could be conducted on informal corporate training, working with additional variables to determine how they affect company training policies. The propositions were tested in a specific industry and area. Further research would be convenient in different regions and sectors.

Originality/value

Contributes to the literature in human resources about the adaptation of human resources strategy to necessary changes in the workplace.

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Journal of European Industrial Training, vol. 29 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0309-0590

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Publication date: 19 June 2002

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Managing People in Entrepreneurial Organizations
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ISBN: 978-0-76230-877-4

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Publication date: 12 December 2017

Kandy Woodfield and Ron Iphofen

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The Ethics of Online Research
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-486-6

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Publication date: 15 September 2010

José G. Vargas-Hernández

Grass roots movements in relationships of cooperation and conflict between firms, communities, and government have an important role to stop a living city from disappearing. This…

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Grass roots movements in relationships of cooperation and conflict between firms, communities, and government have an important role to stop a living city from disappearing. This chapter describes and analyzes the implications of the collective action used by grass roots movements in the defense of an old mining town, Cerro de San Pedro, of being disappeared due to the pollution of fresh watersheds by the operations of a mining company and the effects on the living city of San Luis Potosì, in the center of Mèxico.

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NGOs and Social Responsibility
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-0-85724-296-9

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