... regarding the expectations and the achievements acquired via training. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Transdisciplinary approach Training Local government Sustainable development Greece Uncertainty management The modern environment in which organizations and enterprises...

... and training is growing, very little has been done to assess mentor training interventions. The present paper is one of the first to address and explore this issue. Mentoring Mentors Women Training Start‐up entrepreneurs Greece Within the EMTI, mentors, after being selected, are trained...

... are the research questions of a survey conducted in northern Greece. Design/methodology/approach The survey, of 116 entrepreneurs, owners of small medium and very small enterprises, investigates awareness, attitudes and perceptions regarding creativity and innovation, for facilitating the design...

... work environment. Managers, also have the responsibility, to ascertain which factors inhibit effectiveness and make the appropriate decisions, to ameliorate the situation (Swart et al., 2005). Workplace training Employee attitudes Motivation (psychology) Job satisfaction Greece...

...‐demographic and positional factors. Emotional intelligence Service industries Greece Until the early 1990s, the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) received very little research attention (Carmeli, 2003). The major focus of researchers at that time was on the importance of cognitive...

...Dimitrios M. Mihail Purpose Greece has the highest youth unemployment rate in the European Union. Even though it is clear that persistent unemployment requires bold measures in engaging young educated Greeks in the labour market, there is no coherent policy targeting that population group...

... managers Partnership Greece Until recently, focusing on its administrative role, human resource management (HRM) tended to be reactive, occurring mostly in response to a business problem of need. HRM problems were usually referred to a specialist and were not part of the strategic business plan...

..., performance management and employee communications. It also compares these developments to the overall European scene. Results show more improvement in training and performance management and less in employee communications. From examination of survey results, it is obvious that Greece follows the EU trends...

... and Greek health organizations. Concludes that health organizations need to eliminate barriers to learning. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Learning organizations Development Health care United Kingdom Greece Argyris and Schön (1978) argue that individual learning takes place only when new...

... the key to competitiveness and growth. Moreover, under the pressure of competitive forces, developments in the HRM practices become increasingly important. The first part of this article draws from the findings of the Cranfield survey, in which Greece participated three times (in 1993, 1996 and 1999...

...Nikitas Patiniotis; Dimitris Stavroulakis Vocational education in Greece has been developed only recently, mainly through foreign influences. Delay is largely attributed to idiomorphic employment patterns, favouring low‐skilled labour, and to culture, prompting youths to university education...