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On the Relation between Task-Variety, Social Informal Learning, and Employability
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Froehlich, Dominik E.; Segers, Mien; Beausaert, Simon; Kremer, Michael – Vocations and Learning, 2019
Fluctuating demands and fast changing job-requirements require organizations to invest in employees so that they are able to take up new tasks. In this respect, fostering employees' employability is high on the agenda of many organizations. As a prerequisite for creating employability, many scholars have focused on the role of social informal…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Employment Potential, Informal Education, Competence
Learning or Leaving? Individual and Environmental Factors Related to Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention
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Puhakka, Ilmari J. A.; Nokelainen, Petri; Pylväs, Laura – Vocations and Learning, 2021
In addition to well-being, workplace learning has gained increasing interest in supporting employee and organizational development and success. Focusing on specific factors affecting workplace learning and well-being, this study examines the links between individual factors (basic psychological need satisfaction) and environmental factors…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Work Environment, Correlation, Job Satisfaction
The Impact of Individual, Educational, and Workplace Factors on the Transfer of School-Based Learning into the Workplace
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Renta Davids, Ana Inés; Van den Bossche, Piet; Gijbels, David; Fandos Garrido, Manel – Vocations and Learning, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate the transfer of learning of professional competences from vocational colleges to the workplace context in vocational education. Concretely, the study examined the relations between the professional competences learned at school and the use and further development of those competences at the workplace during…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Competence
Toward a 3-P Model of Workplace Learning: A Literature Review
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Tynjala, Paivi – Vocations and Learning, 2013
The interest in research focusing on learning taking place at work, through work and for work has considerably increased over the past two decades. The purpose of the paper is to review and structure this wide and diverse research field. A tentative holistic model--the 3-P model of workplace learning--is presented, in relation to which the…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Communities of Practice
Error Orientation and Reflection at Work
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Hetzner, Stefanie; Gartmeier, Martin; Heid, Helmut; Gruber, Hans – Vocations and Learning, 2011
Reflection on events at work, including errors is often as a means to learn effectively through work. In a cross-sectional field study in the banking sector, we investigated attitudes towards workplace errors (i.e. error orientation) as predictors of reflective activity. We assumed the organisational climate for psychological safety to have a…
Descriptors: Banking, Finance Occupations, Employee Attitudes, Work Attitudes
Routine-Generating and Regenerative Workplace Learning
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Kira, Mari – Vocations and Learning, 2010
The research discussed in this article focuses on workplace learning in industrial manufacturing work. Everyday work episodes contributing to workplace learning are investigated in four companies operating in the Finnish and Swedish package-supplier sectors. The research adopts a qualitative, interpretive approach. Interviews with employees and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Manufacturing Industry, Foreign Countries, Industrial Training