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Halvarsson Lundkvist, Agneta; Gustavsson, Maria – Vocations and Learning, 2018
The aim of this article is to investigate how the formal competence development activities provided by the Production Leap, a workplace development programme (WPDP), were interwoven with everyday work activities and to identify the conditions that enabled learning and employee-driven innovation that contributed to production improvement, in small…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Workplace Learning, Job Skills
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Gustavsson, Maria; Säfsten, Kristina – Vocations and Learning, 2017
The aim is to explore challenges related to the integration between product development and production in product introduction and, given these challenges, to analyse the learning potential of boundary crossing in the context of product introduction. The paper draws on evidence from a Swedish manufacturing company. The theoretical framework is…
Descriptors: Material Development, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Industry, Foreign Countries
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Gustavsson, Maria – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate individuals' learning and propensity for changing their job situation during downsizing in a company. Design/methodology/approach: A case study was carried out in an industrial company that had undergone major downsizing to adapt to changes in production. Approximately 100 employees retrained at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Layoff, Dislocated Workers, Motivation
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Gustavsson, Maria; Eriksson, Anna Fogelberg – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2010
The aim is to investigate female and male managers' learning environments with particular focus on their opportunities for and barriers to learning and career development in the managerial work of a male-dominated industrial company. In the case study 42 managers, 15 women and 27 men in the company were interviewed. The findings demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Career Development, Gender Differences, Work Environment