Understanding Learning at WorkDavid Boud, John Garrick Routledge, 12. 10. 2012 - 256 strán (strany) Work now invariably requires a continual focus on learning: to improve productivity, to enhance the flexibility of employees and to develop and transform organizations. This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debates on workplace learning and to propose directions for future developments in both research and practice. Topics covered include: * expectations of learning at work into the twenty-first century |
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... roles and be easily redeployed in the flexible new workplace. This skill, along with other rudiments in service production, such as 'emotional work'2 (Hochschild 1983), is now commonly required in office work. By the 1980s a number ...
... role of knowledge. Although there are wide industry variations and some national ones (e.g. Castells (1996) points to retention in Japan of a relatively high number of traditional craft-skilled workers), a decline in traditional and ...
... roles and opportunities. A data-rich environment enables and requires new forms of work organisation and new management practices that recognise and positively exploit the blurring of boundaries and de-specialisation made possible by ...
... role of workers in organisation success, and more fully accountable management practices, must be facilitated and maintained. Globalisation and work A further changing context ofwork is the process identified in the 1990s of ...
... role of the nation-state – globalisation points to the rising importance of the multinational and transnational corporations that now control a large percentage ofthe world's economy and exert considerable influence on global policy ...