... beliefs confirming the central role in workplace learning of line managers who adopt a coaching approach. Key new insights were also found in managers’ beliefs on acting as role models within the organisation and their beliefs on the need to manage skills-related organisational risk. Research...

...Patricia Harrison Purpose This paper aims to focus on the role of line management and learning culture in the development of professional practice for the human resource (HR) practitioner. Design/methodology/approach Three‐year longitudinal, matched‐pair study involving five participants...

...Elena K. Zavyalova; Sofia V. Kosheleva Purpose The paper investigates personal and environmental factors providing for the efficiency of line managers' activity and contributing to their professional and career advancement. The paper studies the prognostic value of the assessment of personal...

... negative effect on trainees' training motivation. Training evaluation Line managers Training methods Positive transfer of training concerns the effective and continuing application, by trainees to their jobs, of the knowledge and skills gained in training (Broad and Newstrom, 1992). Transfer...

... of workers and team leaders to such teams. Automotive industry Manufacturing systems Learning organizations Human resource strategies Line managers Of the 18 plants researched all but one had relatively fixed teams, who enjoyed varying degrees of flexibility within their own team‐based internal...

...Nancy Papalexandris; Leda Panayotopoulou Purpose This article seeks to discuss the role that line managers take up concerning human resource management issues among Greek firms and to propose ways for enhancing the synergistic relationship between human resource (HR) and line managers. Design...

...Christina Mary MacNeil This paper explores the themes and implications, concerning the role of the supervisor as a facilitator of knowledge sharing in teams. After describing the strategic context for devolving human resource responsibilities to line managers, the paper defines and discusses...