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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
Rajagopal, Indhu – Review of Higher Education, 2004
This paper examines limited-term full-time faculty (LTFTs) in Canadian universities in 1991-1992 in response to the author's survey. It addresses the following issues: the faculty hierarchy, the characteristics of LTFTs, career paths, career aspirations and job prospects, barriers to achieving tenure-stream positions, workloads, perceptions of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Vertical Organization, Teacher Characteristics, Career Development
Rabak, Lynne; Cleveland-Innes, Martha – Journal of Distance Education, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate what influences employees' acceptance and resistance to a corporate e-learning initiative provided by a large retail chain. The research used a survey design to gather interview and survey data to examine the factors affecting learner interest in, and resistance to, training and e-learning. The results…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Distance Education, Web Based Instruction, Industrial Psychology
Gattiker, Urs E.; And Others – 1986
It is expected that by 1990 the majority of clerical and managerial workers in North America will use computers in their daily work. An integrative model was developed which views quality of work life as an ever changing dimension influenced by computerization and by perception of career success and non-work factors. To test this model, a study…
Descriptors: Administrators, Careers, Computers, Employee Attitudes

Hill, Jean M. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1984
Defining absenteeism as "unscheduled leave," this report describes an attempt to analyze the factors involved in absenteeism, which produced no significant improvement, and an absentee counseling program instituted at the University of Guelph Library in October 1980, which resulted in improved attendance within a few months. (EJS)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
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

Walters, Stephen – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1996
Surveyed 229 American and 339 Canadian correctional officers so as to ascertain cross cultural similarities and differences. Results indicate that most of the similarities related to attitudes toward correctional work, such as job satisfaction, custody orientation, and quality of working life. Differences were related to administrative practices…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correctional Institutions, Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Powell, Deborah M.; Meyer, John P. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2004
We tested Becker's (1960) side-bet conceptualization of commitment within the context of Meyer and Allen's (1991) three-component model of organizational commitment. Employees (N=202) from various organizations completed a survey including measures of (a) seven categories of side bets (b) affective, normative, and continuance commitment, and (c)…
Descriptors: Intention, Structural Equation Models, Employees, Organizations (Groups)

New Brunswick Labour Force Development Board, Fredericton. – 1995
The evaluative mechanisms in the Department of Advanced Education and Labour and Department of Human Resources Development in the Canadian province of New Brunswick were reviewed. Data were gathered from the following: meetings with key staff in each department, briefing session for all key informants, 19 personal interviews, brief review of the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Employee Attitudes
Johnson, Beth Hillman, Ed. – 1996
This collection of 18 papers review the fundamentals in collective bargaining in higher education. Areas discussed include arbitration, grievance preparation, the collective bargaining process, diversity, technology, staff bargaining, and faculty and staff participation in employee involvement schemes. An annual legal update is included. The…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
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
Auster, Ethel; Chan, Donna C. – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2003
Examines some of the factors affecting the participation of librarians in professional development activities. Reference librarians working in large urban public libraries in Ontario were surveyed. Data on participation in formal and informal learning activities, together with information about their perceptions of their libraries' environment…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Librarian Attitudes
Thomas, Barb; Novogrodsky, Charles – 1983
This book provides the outline of a course designed to involve Canadian workers in talking openly and seriously about racism in the workplace. An introduction briefly describes the background, underlying assumptions, and purpose of the course. Following this are ten sections containing information for use at ten different training sessions. In…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Ethnic Bias, Foreign Countries
Bramwell, K.; Forrester, S.; Houle, B.; Larocque, J.; Villeneuve, L.; Priest, S. – Horizons, 1997
A company division of 72 people that had participated in an adventure training program one year earlier was surveyed to identify the longitudinal impacts of adventure training on corporate managers, attitudes toward adventure training, and changes in work behavior. Results showed positive changes that were short-lived without follow-up programs.…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Corporate Education, Employee Attitudes
Theilheimer, Ish, Ed.; Eisner, Kathy, Ed. – Transition, 1996
This publication, in English and French, reports on the work-family conflict in Canada, gauges progress over the past decade, and examines how views have changed. The following articles are featured: (1) "Caution: Families at Work" (Ish Theilheimer), an examination of current workplace innovations, viewpoints of employers and employees,…
Descriptors: Children, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents, Employee Attitudes