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Gattiker, Urs E. – 1987
Technological innovation affects the structure and content of jobs. Research indicates that there is a need for a theory of technological innovation and strategic human resource management considering several factors, such as an employee's beliefs about the effect of technological innovations on the quality of work life and work content.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Automation, Computers, Employee Attitudes
Mellan, James R. – 1988
A study was conducted to determine the impact technology would have on the developing scenario of a competitive market for the training and retraining of both the unemployed and employed. The objective was to identify the perceptions of employees concerning technology and the effectiveness and efficiency of office technology training. The study…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1991
This paper, translated from French, is a transcript of a roundtable discussion on workplace literacy programs in Canada (especially in Quebec). During the roundtable, the panelists discussed various workplace literacy programs being conducted in their companies through joint partnerships of employers and unions, sometimes with government financial…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educational Attitudes, Employee Attitudes
Manitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. Literacy and Continuing Education Branch. – 1996
Manitoba, Canada, workplace stakeholder groups were interviewed to determine the issues they faced and their awareness of, and ability to deal with, workplace basic skills issues. Interviews collected the opinions of 78 employer representatives, 121 employees, and 5 union representatives in the 6 emerging economic sectors of health care products,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
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Harper, Helen; And Others – Gender and Education, 1996
Examines the connection between an English-in-the-workplace (EWP) class and the linguistic behavior of immigrant women garment factory employees. Results suggest that newly acquired English skills may be reinforcing linguistic behavior that reconstitutes traditional relations between workers and management. However, EWP does not appear to empower…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Criticism, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes
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da Costa, Jose L. – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
This article reports observations of teachers' collaboration within an inner city elementary school located in western Canada. The study traces the school's development as a learning organization, focusing on the interplay between individual--the level at which learning and action actually occur--and social learning--a conceptual tool for…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
Avedon, Lisa – 1995
Many older workers in Canada today are perplexed and dismayed by the swift and dramatic changes occurring in the workplace. Plant closures, downsizings, restructuring, new technologies, international trade agreements, ecological concerns, and changing demographics have affected the Canadian workforce, particularly workers in their forties and…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Economic Change
Council of Forest Industries (British Columbia). – 1991
A preliminary study of job-related communications skills in British Columbia sawmills investigated the extent of agreement between reading grade levels of written workplace materials and reading comprehension levels of employees expected to read them. In 1990, 227 employees in 8 sawmills were interviewed with a 52-item structured interview, a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills, Educational Needs
Rosove, Bruce; Hawkins, Keira – 1980
This PLACE workbook for clients in employment counseling helps them assess their employability, specifically in the part of PLACE related to doing well on the job. (A companion Sourcebook is available separately as CE 031 888). It contains employment-related topics about which clients are asked questions that can help them identify employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Education, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Baskett, H. K. Morris – 1993
A study to explore organizational conditions that facilitate workplace learning involved 35 resource development consultants in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and line staff from 22 organizations in a 9-hour participatory research workshop using Appreciative Inquiry--a technology emphasizing the positive or "life-giving" forces which…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1983
This first volume of a two-volume report presents findings of a task force on the importance of skill development leave as a mechanism for retraining, upgrading, and updating workers in a dynamic Canadian society. The report is designed as a tool for consultation. Volume I contains two parts. Part I, the background section, describes the current…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Developed Nations, Employee Attitudes
Rosove, Bruce; Hawkins, Keira – 1980
This PLACE Sourcebook on the World of Work provides clients in employment counseling with information about occupations, the norms of the labor market, and sources that clients can consult to find additional information on the part of PLACE related to doing well on the job. For each employment-related topic in the corresponding Workbook (CE 031…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Education, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Eschuk, Craig – Human Resources Development Canada, 2003
This study addresses the issue of how new forms of work organization (NFWO) are affecting job skill requirements. Practices such as job rotation, problem-solving teams and self-directed workgroups are thought to increase job skill requirements because they tend to broaden job responsibilities. The study uses the 1999 and 2000 waves of the…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Problem Solving, Occupational Surveys, Employee Attitudes
Simmonds, W. H. C. – 1976
Adopting technology to people and examining projects through the eyes of those concerned are two ways new technology and engineering can be installed and successfully operated under the adverse conditions of northern Canada and in the face of predicted labor shortages in the 1980's. Adopting a more flexible technology provides the opportunity for…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Employee Attitudes, Engineering, Environmental Influences
Stratton, Mary; Jackson, Ted – 2001
A study explored the ways that front-line community development workers across Canada gained information needed to work with women participants in community economic development initiatives. Data were gathered through focus groups, a preliminary study with 15 key informants employed in community development organizations, and structured telephone…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Style, Community Development, Constructivism (Learning)
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