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Team Building, Employee Empowerment and Employee Competencies: Moderating Role of Organizational Learning Culture
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Potnuru, Rama Krishna Gupta; Sahoo, Chandan Kumar; Sharma, Rohini – European Journal of Training and Development, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of team building and employee empowerment on employee competencies and examine the moderating role of organizational learning culture in between these relationships. Design/methodology/approach: An integrated research model is developed by combining resource-based view, signalling theory…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Employees, Empowerment, Competence
Investigating Tools and Techniques to Promote Workplace Training Transfer
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Dixit, Ramnath; Sinha, Vinita – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to guide decision-makers in the learning and development space with effective and efficient training transfer tools and techniques to facilitate workplace implementation of skills and knowledge disseminated during training interventions. Design/methodology/approach: Insights were drawn using a quantitative…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Job Skills, Job Training, Methods
The Impact of Support at the Workplace on Transfer of Training: A Study of an Indian Manufacturing Unit
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Chauhan, Ragini; Ghosh, Piyali; Rai, Alka; Shukla, Divya – International Journal of Training and Development, 2016
This study aims to assess the individual impacts of two components of support at the workplace, namely, support from peers and supervisor, on transfer of training in a post-training environment. Mediation by motivation to transfer in the relationship of supervisor and peer support with transfer of training has also been examined. Data on 149…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Transfer of Training, Mediation Theory, Social Support Groups
Vocational Training in India and the Duality Principle: A Case for Evidence-Based Reform
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Mehrotra, Santosh; Kalaiyarasan, A.; Kumra, Neha; Ravi Raman, K. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2015
This article explores the notion of the duality principle, as embodied in the German dual system of Vocational Education and Training (VET), within the context of a field survey of skill shortages faced by German and Indian firms operating in India. The study finds that these firms experience problems with the quantity and quality of skills…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Skill Development, Foreign Countries, Corporations
Tapping into the "Standing-Reserve": A Comparative Analysis of Workers' Training Programmes in Kolkata and Toronto
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Maitra, Saikat; Maitra, Srabani – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This paper examines employment-related training programmes offered by state funded agencies and multinational corporations in Toronto (Canada) and Kolkata (India). In recent years both cities have witnessed a rise in the service sector industries aligned with global regimes of flexible work and the consequent reinvention of a worker subject that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Training, Employees
Learning Racial Hierarchies: Communication Skills Training in Transnational Customer Service Work
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Mirchandani, Kiran – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the communications skills training given to transnational call center workers in India whose jobs involve providing customer service to Western customers. Emotion work is a key component of customer service jobs, and this work is constructed as an important soft skill. Design/methodology/approach: Between 2002…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Communication Skills, Telecommunications