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Joseph L. Fleming – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study focused on the impact of socioeconomic status through the experiences of telecommute workers from a healthcare insurance provider. The aim of the study is to analyze the influence these factors impose on personal growth in the job role of a telecommuting worker through the eyes of Texas telecommute workers in the healthcare industry.…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Teleworking, Health Insurance, Learning Theories
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Larrea, Maria F.; Hodge, Steven; Mavin, Timothy J.; Kikkawa, Yosriko – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
This paper provides a perspective on learning in which training and situated learning complement each other in developing cabin crew competence. Traditionally, airlines have approached cabin crew training from a competency-based, behavioural perspective with limited engagement in the actual work context. This ethnographic study builds on…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Air Transportation
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Schenck, Andrew – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2015
While theories of adult learning and motivation are often framed as being either biological, psychological, or sociocultural, they represent a more complex, integral process. To gain a more holistic perspective of this process, a study was designed to concurrently investigate relationships between a biological factor (age), psychological factors…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Models, Job Training, Employees
Hager, Paul; Beckett, David – 1999
The hypothesis that making judgments is the basis for workplace learning was examined by studying work in a range of occupations with a view to identifying and analyzing the main judgments involved in individuals' work performance. To test the hypothesis, six practicing professionals (three men and three women) were interviewed. Two of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Education Work Relationship
Davidson, Bo; Svedin, Per-Olof – 1999
This study of the conditions of developmental on-the-job training and learning for operators in highly automated industries is written in Swedish but contains an English abstract and 18-page summary. The summary begins with the study objectives, which were to determine the following: (1) conditions of developmental on-the-job learning in highly…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Automation, Case Studies, Competence
2001
This document contains three papers on emotions and behavior in the workplace and their implications for human resource development (HRD). "Analyzing Training from an Emotions Perspective" (Darren C. Short) reviews the empirical and theoretical literature on emotions and explains how the literature can be used to analyze incidences in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adoption (Ideas), Affective Behavior, Change Strategies