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Poell, Rob F.; Van der Krogt, Ferd J.; Wildemeersch, Danny – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1999
Interviews with 96 participants indicated that employees, managers, and human-resource-development staff use different strategies to organize work-related learning networks. Choice of strategy (extended training, directed reflection, reflective innovation) was partially related to type of work (machine-bureaucratic, entrepreneurial, professional).…
Descriptors: Administrators, Corporate Education, Employees, Learning Strategies
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Poell, Rob F.; Van der Krogt, Ferd J.; Wildemeersch, Danny A. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1998
Project-based learning is a better method than formal education for solving work-related problems. A learning network approach makes the relationship between competence and work explicit and provides a typology of learning projects--liberal, vertical, horizontal, and external--depending on who organizes projects and for what purposes. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Job Performance, Learning Strategies, Learning Theories
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Poell, Rob F.; Van der Krogt, Ferd J.; Vermulst, A. A.; Harris, Roger; Simons, Michele – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2006
Informal workplace trainers help employees learn what they need to know and do in order to get their job done. Little is known about the actions of informal workplace trainers, who may be colleagues or supervisors. This study provides an empirical basis for actions undertaken by informal workplace trainers. A total of 350 Australian enterprises…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Job Skills, Foreign Countries, On the Job Training