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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

Wood, Jack M. – Canadian Administrator, 1977
Reports on a study that included examination of the degree of change in selected aspects of job satisfaction and organizational performance after the organization adopted a form of modified workweek. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Flexible Working Hours, Job Satisfaction
Bond, Sheryl; Areepattamannil, Shaljan; Brathwaite-Sturgeon, Gerard; Hayle, Elaine; Malekan, Majid – Canadian Bureau for International Education, 2007
This study, facilitated by university and college student service professionals, provides the direct views and lived reality of international graduates of our education system. CBIE advocates for improvements in policies and practices vis-à-vis international students and over the years has been successful in working with federal government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Surveys, Foreign Students, Foreign Policy

Bart, Christopher K. – Management Education and Development, 1988
Discusses two surveys of the undergraduate business policy course in Canadian schools of business. One identified the content and structure of the course as currently taught; the other polled executives of major Canadian corporations regarding what the content and structure of the course should be. (JOW)
Descriptors: Business Education, Course Content, Course Evaluation, Employer Attitudes
Sorensen, Jack G. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1976
Data for the study was obtained by surveying recent graduates of electronics programs and their employers. Analysis of the data identified: core skills (the guideline for basic programs) and selected job profiles (guideline for job trainee preparation). The core skills profile and the telecommunications technician job profile are appended.…
Descriptors: Electronics, Employer Attitudes, Entry Workers, Foreign Countries

Hurd, Judy; Hendy, Martin – Journal of Cooperative Education, 1997
Synthesis of cooperative education research from the United States and Canada since the 1970s suggests the need to standardize the data gathering process so that data can be gathered and compared across studies. (JOW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research

Lin, Zeng; Sweet, Robert; Anisef, Paul – Higher Education Policy, 2003
Analyses suggest that the Canadian labor market favors vocational over liberal graduates with regard to employment status, income, job security, and job satisfaction. However, findings also indicate a surprising lack of difference between liberal and vocational graduates in their employability skills. Employers were nevertheless more likely to…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Employer Attitudes
Sheridan Coll. (Ontario). – 2002
Summarizes findings from the Key Performance Indicator Satisfaction Survey administered by Sheridan College in the summer 2000, fall 2000, and winter 2001 terms. This survey was administered in compliance with the Ontario government's efforts to increase the accountability of the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology through the measurement of…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Employer Attitudes, Employment

Adler, Nancy J. – Group and Organization Studies, 1981
Studied the re-entry process of corporate and governmental employees (N=200) returning to Canada after working overseas. Research found re-entry into the original culture was a more difficult transition than moving to the foreign culture. Home-country managers tended to exhibit xenophobia in assessing the potential and actual effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrators, Coping, Employer Attitudes
Fox, Tricia A. – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1990
Findings of a three-year co-worker literacy tutoring program in Canada include the following: (1) management and unions must be informed of program intent and purpose; (2) nonreaders' fear of exposure is a major barrier to participation; and (3) workplace literacy coordinators for each industry are essential. (SK)
Descriptors: Coordinators, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Fear
Fox, Tricia A. – Education Canada, 1991
Describes a workplace literacy project in Canada that trains "literate" workers to tutor their "illiterate" co-workers. Employers were beginning to realize that literacy training could increase production and decrease industrial accidents. Attitudes of employees toward the program are correlated to the attitude and interest of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Employee Attitudes
Bloom, Michael; Burrows, Marie; Lafleur, Brenda; Squires, Robert – 1997
A Canadian study explored the economic benefits of improving literacy skills in the workplace from the perspective of both employers and employees. The Conference Board identified and measured these benefits by conducting a survey of 40 employers, as well as by analyzing data gathered in the International Adult Literacy Survey. The study found…
Descriptors: Adults, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Educational Needs
Ontario Ministry of Skills Development, Toronto. – 1989
A study was undertaken to examine the factors that influenced the decision of firms to provide training for their employees. It also identified the types of training provided, how the training function was organized and administered within firms, and the extent to which firms provided formal training programs for their employees. The study was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices
Thomas, Barb; Novogrodsky, Charles – 1983
Readings and exercises for use with a course for Canadian workers on racism and the workplace are included in this book. The materials are organized to reflect the themes of the ten sessions of the course: (1) racism hurts workers; (2) analysing racial situations in the workplace; (3) the employer connection to racism in the workplace; (4)…
Descriptors: Blacks, Change Strategies, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Dartnell Corp., Chicago, IL. – 1990
A survey was conducted of the want ad sections of Sunday newspapers in 14 cities in the United States and of Saturday newspapers in 3 Canadian cities in February 1990 to determine what qualifications employers required of secretaries. Data from 4,500 individual ads were tabulated. The survey tracked 34 types of information in secretarial ads…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Skills, Employer Attitudes, Employment Experience