...), proprietary mentoring software (Francis, 2009 ; Primack et al., 2012) and teleconferencing and video conferencing (Economides, 2008). Communications technology facilitates interaction among people with different cultural backgrounds (Carvin, 2011), from different parts of an organization...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Collaboration Communication technologies Decision making Knowledge sharing Workplace learning The general practitioner and the specialist have a common goal for their activity. The object that connects them (Daniels and Warmington, 2007...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 The efficiency of business process (Farrell, 2003) and the competitive advantage of an organisation (King and Teo, 1996) can be improved by the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT). In addition, learning quickly is the key to success...

... a fundamental part of many people's day‐to‐day working lives. As with the introduction of other mass communication technologies, issues surrounding use, abuse and addiction in the workplace have surfaced (Griffiths, 2002 ; Weatherbee, 2009). It is not uncommon for office workers to spend workplace time...

... Communication technologies Workplace learning Knowledge economy Knowledge organizations This paper explores insights from a study of women's learning pathways to jobs in the information technology (IT) field. Between 2003 and 2006, the study team interviewed 75 women in the urban centres of Vancouver...

... is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: kirsti.hulkari@kopteri.net © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Worldwide web Communication technologies Workplace learning Action learning Nursing Finland One of the questions in vocational training of today is how to keep the training...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Competences Communication technologies Assessment Norway In the following sections, an overview is provided of the research context, a brief introduction to the major features of the competence IT tool and a discussion on how the IT tool was taken into use...

... 2004 Workplace learning Communication technologies Learning Such a brief outline also suggests that the e‐learning concept in itself is vague and serves many purposes. Its function as an organisational‐political focus has been pointed out by various persons (Massy, 2002). Obviously, “e...