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How Do Employees' Individual Learning Paths Differ across Occupations? A Review of 10 years of Empirical Research
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Poell, Rob F.; Lundgren, Henriette; Bang, April; Justice, Sean B.; Marsick, Victoria J.; Sung, SeoYoon; Yorks, Lyle – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: Employees are increasingly expected to organize their own human resource development activities. To what extent and how exactly employees in various organizational contexts manage to shape their individual learning paths however remains largely unclear. The purpose of this present study is to explore, leaning on the empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Employees, Learning Strategies
Why is Organizing Human Resource Development so Problematic? Perspectives from the Learning-Network Theory (Part II)
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Poell, Rob F.; Van Der Krogt, Ferd – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: Human resource development (HRD) is an important field within management. Developing employees is often regarded as an instrument to improve the internal labor market and support organizational change. Organizing HRD to these ends, however, is frequently a problematic affair, in terms of training effectiveness, participant motivation and…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Learning Theories, Networks
Why Is Organizing Human Resource Development so Problematic? Perspectives from the Learning-Network Theory (Part I)
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Poell, Rob F.; van der Krogt, Ferd – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: Human resource development (HRD) is an important field within management. Developing employees is often regarded as an instrument to improve the internal labor market and support organizational change. Organizing HRD to these ends, however, is frequently a problematic affair, in terms of training effectiveness, participant motivation and…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Labor Market, Training
Personality Testing and Workplace Training: Exploring Stakeholders, Products and Purpose in Western Europe
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Lundgren, Henriette; Kroon, Brigitte; Poell, Rob F. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how and why personality tests are used in workplace training. This research paper is guided by three research questions that inquire about the role of external and internal stakeholders, the value of psychometric and practical considerations in test selection, and the purpose of personality test use…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Human Resources, Foreign Countries, Personality Measures