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Giroux, Isabelle; Boutin, Claude; Ladouceur, Robert; Lachance, Stella; Dufour, Magali – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2008
Over the last years, several comprehensive training programs for problem gambling have been developed and implemented in various casinos around the world. However, the efficacy of these programs has rarely been assessed and evaluated scientifically. A workshop called "Des gens qui font la difference" (People Making a Difference) was…
Descriptors: Refresher Courses, Employees, Training, Foreign Countries
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Taylor, Maurice; Evans, Karen – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2009
The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate some of the kinds of formal and informal workplace training activities that workers with low literacy engage in from different parts of Canada and the United Kingdom. The study employed a multi-site case study research design with 31 employees and 18 instructors from seven different types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Workplace Literacy
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Stack, Michelle – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2007
This article focuses on how five journalists arrived at their decisions about how to report policy, particularly educational policy. It is part of a larger study that takes the position that the media play a central role in educational policy-making and that educators need to understand the power that journalists working within corporate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Journalism, Mass Media Role
Gattiker, Urs E.; Larwood, Laurie – 1984
Recent studies have evaluated career strategies and their relationship to career success. Previous research has evaluated career success as perceived by persons evaluating others' careers, generally with such criteria as job title, salary, and promotions. This study examined career success through a combination of objective and subjective…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Ladders, Careers, Employee Attitudes
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Brutus, Stephane; Derayeh, Mehrdad – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2002
Of 101 Canadian companies, 43% used multisource assessment (supervisor, peer, subordinate, and customer feedback) for performance evaluations. The process often needed adjustment due to employee resistance, lack of strategic purpose, poor instrument design, an technical problems. (Contains 37 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries, Job Performance
Dostie, Benoit; Montmarquette, Claude – Human Resources and Social Development Canada, 2007
This report presents a review of studies and articles on employer-sponsored training in Canada. The authors reviewed documentation that used data from the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) and offer a synthesis of the current state of knowledge. The report looks alternately at issues pertaining to determinants of training from the employer and…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Corporate Education
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Conrad, Dianne L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2008
The study that informs this article investigated how online learners' participation in and perception of their sense of learning community contributed to or affected their relationship to their workplace environment and their workplace colleagues. The findings support contentions that, in the workplace, the work itself constitutes the most…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Work Environment, Peer Relationship, Employee Attitudes
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Schmidt, Steven W. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Opportunities for training and development are paramount in decisions regarding employee career choices. Despite the importance, many research studies on job satisfaction do not address satisfaction with workplace training as an element of overall job satisfaction, and many job satisfaction survey instruments do not include a "satisfaction…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Job Training, Correlation, Career Choice
Bouchard, Andre Joseph – 1966
The purpose of this study was to ascertain what training county agricultural extension agents felt was needed for proficiency in their jobs. Data were obtained from 161 of the 182 agents in the Province with a 191-item questionnaire categorized into (1) program planning, (2) psychological and educational principles, (3) performance of educational…
Descriptors: Age, Agricultural Personnel, Educational Needs, Employee Attitudes
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Marriott, Anne; And Others – Health & Social Work, 1994
Surveyed 188 psychiatric social workers, finding overall positive level of job satisfaction. Overall job satisfaction was found to be primarily determined by position satisfaction. Major correlate of position satisfaction was professional respect received from other disciplines and not specific tasks performed. Results showed importance of…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Job Satisfaction
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Fast, Janet E.; Skrypnek, Berna J. – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1994
Describes three dimensions of labor force behavior: participation, attachment, and commitment. Presents a picture of trends in Canadian women's labor force behavior over the last 40 years using existing data. Discusses the implications of these trends for family life and corporate and public policy. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Females, Foreign Countries
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Pollard, George – Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 1995
Explores attitudes among Canadian news workers, finding that more professionalism, a less formal and smaller organization, media sector, and several social attributes lead to more job satisfaction. Shows that newspaper workers were most satisfied due to a combination of intrinsic factors, such as autonomy, authority, and control of work; and…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
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Schaufeli, Wilmar B.; Bakker, Arnold B.; Salanova, Marisa – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
This article reports on the development of a short questionnaire to measure work engagement--a positive work-related state of fulfillment that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. Data were collected in 10 different countries (N = 14,521), and results indicated that the original 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) can be…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Burnout, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Saleh, S. D.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
The Job Attitude Scale was administered to majors and captains and to upper-middle managers and lower-middle managers of industrial organizations. The results were discussed in view of job environment and job level. (Author)
Descriptors: Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Industrial Personnel
Gattiker, Urs E.; Larwood, Laurie – 1989
Career achievement can be considered as a subset of career success, but it is not as concerned with the usual measures of success such as financial wealth and prestige as with reflecting the employee's movement through the corporate hierarchy. In this study objective career achievement was defined as referring to what society considers actual…
Descriptors: Administrators, Career Choice, Careers, Congruence (Psychology)
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