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Identifying Adults' Learning Strategy Profiles in the Workplace: Relations to Organisational Identity, Work Flexibility, and Personal Characteristics
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Esen Altunay; Nedim Özdemir – Studies in Continuing Education, 2025
Policymakers worldwide are grappling with devising robust policies aimed at enhancing adult learning, due to its growing significance in bolstering competitiveness within knowledge-based economies. However, there is scant research on adult learning strategies for improving intrapersonal or social practice approaches, particularly in work settings,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Adult Learning, Learning Strategies
Informal Learning Behaviors, Interaction and Workplace Autonomy and Readiness to Learn
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Lucena Barbosa, Flávia; Borges-Andrade, Jairo Eduardo – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to find a measurement model with better evidence of validity, with data extracted from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). To test a parsimonious model in which dispositional and workplace context characteristics are predictors of informal learning behaviors (ILBs).…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Readiness, Work Environment, Professional Autonomy
Questioning Gendered Ageism in Job-Related Non-Formal Training and Informal Learning
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Íñiguez-Berrozpe, Tatiana; Marcaletti, Francesco; Elboj-Saso, Carmen; Romero-Martin, Sandra – Studies in Continuing Education, 2023
Age can lead to stigmatisation, which is aggravated in groups that are already at risk of exclusion, such as women. This intersectional bias between age and gender (gendered ageism) affects so-called mature workers (aged 50 and over) in different ways, including the prejudices of employers and workers regarding their skills and competencies, as…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Age Discrimination
Skills and Labor Market Outcomes of Working-Age Americans. The Impact of Human Capital in the American Labor Market Series
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Fogg, Neeta; Harrington, Paul; Khatiwada, Ishwar; Kirsch, Irwin; Sands, Anita – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2022
In this new policy report, the fourth in a series examining the impact of human capital in the American labor market from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Center for Research on Human Capital Education, the authors take a unique perspective on the critical link between human capital and labor market outcomes by expanding the analysis to…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Human Capital, Job Skills, Unemployment