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Silvennoinen, Heikki; Nori, Hanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of learning and training opportunities in the Finnish workforce. It will concentrate on the sectors of the workforce that lack these opportunities. Design/Methodology/Approach: The Working Conditions Barometer (WCB) data from 2008, 2009 and 2010 are used (N = 3,326) in this…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Employees, Employers, Foreign Countries
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Kopsen, Susanne – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze learning in a Swedish trade union board in a workplace, according to contemporary challenges in working life and conditions, of decentralization and local independency of trade union work and learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on ethnographic studies of two Swedish local trade…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Ethnography, Unions, Learning Processes
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Toiviainen, Hanna; Kerosuo, Hannele; Syrjala, Tuula – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The paper aims to argue that new tools are needed for operating, developing and learning in work-life networks where academic and practice knowledge are intertwined in multiple levels of and in boundary-crossing across activities. At best, tools for learning are designed in a process of co-configuration, as the analysis of one tool,…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Electronic Equipment, Models, Administrators
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Waight, Consuelo L.; Stewart, Barbara L. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: To illustrate how the interdependence among four championing factors, five antecedents, and four moderators affect companies' efforts in valuing the adult learner in e-learning. Design/methodology/approach: A literature review was conducted to identify the championing factors, antecedents, and moderators that can assist teams in designing…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Needs Assessment, Outcomes of Education, Task Analysis