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Shuck, Brad; Ghosh, Rajashi; Zigarmi, Drea; Nimon, Kim – Human Resource Development Review, 2013
While research is emerging around the employee engagement construct, evolution is in early stages of development. Presently, some questions remain about how employee engagement differs from other well-researched and documented constructs such as job satisfaction, job involvement, and job commitment. Although such inquiry is seemingly academic in…
Descriptors: Employees, Workplace Learning, Job Satisfaction, Labor Force Development
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Schmidt, Steven W.; Githens, Rod P.; Rocco, Tonette S.; Kormanik, Martin B. – Human Resource Development Review, 2012
Issues related to human resource development (HRD) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people such as workplace inclusion, employee affinity groups, and LGBT-specific diversity initiatives are being addressed in organizations more often now than ever before. This article explores the existing literature on LGBT issues in HRD and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Organizational Change, Human Resources, Career Development
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Hamilton, David W.; Torraco, Richard J. – Human Resource Development Review, 2013
Adults with limited education and skills--those who lack the education and skills needed for full participation in U.S. culture and economy--are increasing in numbers. However, the knowledge base addressing this population and their educational needs is fragmented across the literature of several disciplines. A comprehensive review and critique of…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Adult Basic Education, Labor Force Development, Basic Skills
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Cho, Yonjoo; Egan, Toby Marshall – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
Despite considerable interest in action learning, no systematic investigation of action learning literature has been reported. Two purposes of this study are (a) to systematically access and examine recent empirical studies on action learning and related themes using Garrard's Matrix Method for reviewing literature (the review of the literature…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Meta Analysis, Classification, Literature Reviews
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Du Chatenier, Elise; Verstegen, Jos A. A. M.; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Mulder, Martin; Omta, Onno – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
In open innovation teams, people from different organizations work together to develop new products, services, or markets. This organizational diversity can positively influence collaborative knowledge creation but can frustrate and obstruct the process as well. To increase the success rates of open innovation, it is vital to learn how individuals…
Descriptors: Innovation, Institutional Cooperation, Corporations, Teamwork
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Daley, Barbara J.; Conceicao, Simone C. O.; Mina, Liliana; Altman, Brian A.; Baldor, Maria; Brown, James – Human Resource Development Review, 2010
The purpose of this integrative literature review is to summarize research on concept mapping and to offer ideas on how concept mapping can facilitate practice, research, and theory development within human resource development. In this review, more than 300 articles, written in both English and Spanish, presented at two different concept mapping…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Labor Force Development, Literature Reviews, Research Methodology
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Gedro, Julie – Human Resource Development Review, 2010
This literature review will examine international assignments as career development opportunities and uncover multiple issues and considerations with respect to lesbians and international assignments. There is a clear interest in the fields of management and human resource management in the privileges, challenges, and opportunities of…
Descriptors: Overseas Employment, Homosexuality, Labor Force Development, Corporations
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Kormanik, Martin B.; Rocco, Tonette S. – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
One aspect of personality, perceptions of internal versus external control of reinforcement, shifts under conditions of change. This review of the literature examines the relationship between planned organizational change and locus of control. The review includes literature from the disciplines of clinical and social psychology, adult development,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Learning Theories, Locus of Control, Organizational Change
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Burke, Lisa A.; Hutchins, Holly M. – Human Resource Development Review, 2007
Given the proliferation of training transfer studies in various disciplines, we provide an integrative and analytical review of factors impacting transfer of training. Relevant empirical research for transfer across the management, human resource development (HRD), training, adult learning, performance improvement, and psychology literatures is…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Adult Learning, Work Environment, Human Resources
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Opengart, Rose – Human Resource Development Review, 2007
The purpose of this article is to review the content of existing social-emotional learning programs in the American K-12 curriculum and the relationship between the school-based programs and the needs of the American workplace. Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs were examined for their content and compared to research on critical…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Force Development, Human Resources
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Cullen, John; Turnbull, Sharon – Human Resource Development Review, 2005
An appraisal of recent reviews of the literature on management development demonstrates the existence of a number of perspectives on the topic, and this lack of a uniform approach has contributed to confusion about the subject. This article examines a series of recent and existing literature reviews on the topic of management development. It…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Management Development, Meta Analysis, Synthesis
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Shoobridge, Gonzalo E. – Human Resource Development Review, 2006
This article provides an updated review and synthesis of the empirical literature of the determinants of business performance, and discusses directions for future research aimed at developing better theories and advancing knowledge of the specific influence of ethnic minorities on firm financial achievements. The review is intended to overcome the…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Differences, Human Resources
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Rock, Andrew D.; Garavan, Thomas N. – Human Resource Development Review, 2006
This article reviews the emerging literature on developmental relationships and proposes a typology of relationships. Developmental relationships are defined as either formal or informal relationships where an individual takes an active interest in and initiates actions to advance the development of another. The authors focus on five dimensions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Mentors
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Wang, Greg G.; Wang, Jia – Human Resource Development Review, 2004
This article fills a theoretical gap by identifying an understudied subject area for human resource development (HRD) theory building, learning participation of HRD interventions in organizations. The topic has critical significance in current HRD practices, such as concerns on e-learning dropout rates and HRD measurement and evaluation. First, a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Dropout Rate, Labor Force Development, Human Resources