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Lundkvist, Agneta Halvarsson; Gustavsson, Maria – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: This study focuses on a transformation effort in a social welfare department of a Swedish municipality where continuous improvement, which is a Lean principle, was introduced in employees' everyday work via a workplace development programme (WPDP). The aim of this paper is to explore the conditions (internal and external) that enabled or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Services, Organizational Change, Program Development
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Eriksson, Andrea; Axelsson, Runo; Axelsson, Susanna Bihari – Health Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse the experiences of an intervention programme for development of health promoting leadership in Gothenburg in Sweden. The more specific purpose is to identify critical aspects of such a programme as part of the development of a health promoting workplace. Design/methodology/approach: A…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Leadership
Redkey, Henry – 1975
Sheltered work programs for the handicapped in five European countries (Denmark, Sweden, Poland, West Germany, and The Netherlands) are described in this paper. Basic features of the programs in each country are discussed, including population, financing, and aspects of the programs that can be applied in helping America improve employment…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Cooperative Programs, Design Requirements, Disabilities
2000
This document contains 35 papers from the program development section of an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The following are among the papers included: "Using Quality Indicators to Create World-Class Curricula: From Concept to Application" (Curtis Finch,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Bachelors Degrees, Benchmarking