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Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training--The Role of Job Tasks and Firm Effects
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Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus – Education Economics, 2016
This paper addresses the question to what extent the strong positive correlation between education and training can be attributed to differences in individual-, job- and firm-specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered characteristics, in particular, job tasks and firm-fixed effects. The results show…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Correlation, Role
Pedagogic Practice in Company Learning: The Relevance of Discourse
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Höhns, Gabriela M. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
In discussions of work-based learning in anglophone countries, a relatively new question concerns different learning opportunities for differentially positioned novices in the workplace. Basil Bernstein relates learners' positioning with respect to knowledge and within a community of knowers to variations in a discourse underlying and regulating…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Workplace Learning, Corporations, Communities of Practice
Learning from Errors: Critical Incident Reporting in Nursing
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Gartmeier, Martin; Ottl, Eva; Bauer, Johannes; Berberat, Pascal Oliver – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize error reporting as a strategy for informal workplace learning and investigate nurses' error reporting cost/benefit evaluations and associated behaviors. Design/methodology/approach: A longitudinal survey study was carried out in a hospital setting with two measurements (time 1 [t1]:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Error Correction, Critical Incidents Method
Emotions, Coping and Learning in Error Situations in the Workplace
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Rausch, Andreas; Seifried, Jürgen; Harteis, Christian – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the complex relationship between emotions, coping approaches and learning in error situations in the workplace. The study also examines the influence of individual error orientation, as well as psychological safety, and team learning behaviour as contextual factors. Design/methodology/approach: To measure…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Coping, Workplace Learning
Using Workplace Changes as Learning Opportunities: Antecedents to Reflection in Professional Work
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Hetzner, Stefanie; Heid, Helmut; Gruber, Hans – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of how individual characteristics and perceived contextual conditions shape reflection in professional work, particularly in workplaces that provide a variety of work experiences related to changes. The authors examine the effects of personal initiative, self-efficacy and perceived…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Professional Occupations, Reflection, Self Efficacy
Predictors of Collateral Learning Transfer in Continuing Vocational Training
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Hinrichs, Anja-Christina – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2014
Against the background of demographic change and skill shortages continuing vocational training is of great significance in Germany. However, the training effectiveness is mostly assessed only at the end of a training program or several months after the training. Since in continuing vocational training the two contexts learning field (training)…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Continuing Education, Vocational Education, Transfer of Training
Predictors of Collateral Learning Transfer in Continuing Vocational Training
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Hinrichs, Anja-Christina – Online Submission, 2014
Against the background of demographic change and skill shortages continuing vocational training is of great significance in Germany. However, the training effectiveness is mostly assessed only at the end of a training program or several months after the training. Since in continuing vocational training the two contexts learning field (training)…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Continuing Education, Vocational Education, Transfer of Training