...Hanna Björner Brauer; Sara Willermark Purpose Society faces significant challenges, including the climate crisis, energy crisis and war in Europe, where electric utilities play a crucial role. This paper aims to explore how employees at electric utilities unlearn and relearn in response to past...

...Charles Hanu; Hayford Amegbe; Monica Dede Tekyi Ansah Yawson; Philip Mensah Purpose This study aims to examine the moderating effect of supportive organisational culture (SOC) on the differential impact of work-based learning (WBL) on employee agility, ambidexterity and proactive goal generation...

...Jose M. Acevedo; George B. Yancey Purpose This paper aims to examine the importance of new employee orientation (NEO) programs, the quality of typical NEOs, and how to improve NEOs. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a viewpoint of the importance of new employee orientation...

...Linda Ahlgren; Laura C. Engel Purpose The primary objective in this paper is to examine the role of small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in promoting and/or hindering educational opportunities to adult employees in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on 12 case studies...

...Annika Lantz Purpose Employees' work in innovation processes generates ideas, but more often it serves to create conditions so that new products or services can be effectively produced or delivered. Self‐organizational activities involve proactively handling new possibilities, unexpected...

...Natalie Govaerts; Eva Kyndt; Filip Dochy; Herman Baert Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate some factors that have an influence on employee retention. Based on the literature and previous research, both employee and organisational factors are taken into account. Design/methodology...

...Genevieve Armson; Alma Whiteley Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate employees' and managers' accounts of interactive learning and what might encourage or inhibit emergent learning. Design/methodology/approach The approach taken was a constructivist/social constructivist...

... as they occur. When I need I get support and help from my colleagues. It is acceptable to have a bad day I can count on help and support to learn from my mistakes at work. We often test new ideas at my workplace. 6. Innovative climate (three items): Do the employees at your...

...Dan Bouhnik; Yahel Giat; Yafit Sanderovitch Purpose The purpose of this study is to characterize learning from asynchronous sources among research and development (R&D) personnel. It aims to examine four aspects of asynchronous source learning: employee preferences regarding self‐learning...

...Eva Kyndt; Filip Dochy; Hanne Nijs Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the presence of learning conditions for non‐formal and informal workplace learning in relation to the characteristics of the employee and the organisation he or she works for. Design/methodology...

...Andrea D. Ellinger; Maria Cseh Purpose Interest and research on workplace learning has intensified in recent years, however, research on assessing how employees facilitate each other's learning through everyday work experiences and how organizational contextual factors promote or impede...

...Alan Coetzer Purpose The purpose of this article is to contribute to an understanding of how diverse groups of employees perceive their workplaces as learning environments, and to cast light on the learning processes of these diverse groups of employees. Design/methodology/approach This study...

...Raymond Smith Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report and discuss research that sought to explore how the individually purposeful nature of new employee workplace learning might be understood through its conception as epistemological agency, that is, the personally mediated construction...

... factor scales were constructed to represent aspects of personality. Three further concise factor scales were constructed to represent orientation towards managers' roles and behaviour, orientation towards employees' roles and behaviours and self‐reported learning outcomes. The eight‐factor sub‐scales...

...Ai‐Hwa Quek Purpose This study seeks to address empirically the current state of generic competencies considered to be important for successful work performance among Malaysian graduate employees. This study also aims to explain the elements of generic competencies that are needed to complement...

...Barbro I. Anell; Timothy L. Wilson In the discourse on modern management, the concept of flexibility is often mentioned as a desirable characteristic of firms and employees. Flexible organizations exhibit an ability to change in response to market changes. It should be clear, however, that a range...

... of independent individuals that can self‐regulate their behaviour on relatively whole tasks. The key characteristics are: 1) face to face interaction; 2) employees with interrelated tasks who are responsible for making a product or providing and service; 3) employee discretion over decisions such as task...

...) formed a Health at Work Strategy Group. The aim was to develop a policy on health at work for all employees. To address the issue of staff consultation identified by the Initiative, and to identify and reduce sources of stress within the Trust, an anonymous questionnaire was devised. This aimed...

...Robert D. Nale; Dennis A. Rauch; Peter B. Barr States that the workplace is becoming an increasingly stern taskmaster in its demands for literate employees. However, employees may be moving in the opposite direction, resulting in a so‐called “literacy gap”. To make progress towards eliminating...

... to “implode”. Looks at the causes of depression in the workplace, the costs to US businesses, and the training managers need to help their employees as well as their organizations. Not surprisingly, Americans feel trapped in a squirrel cage. They work harder every year but do not feel better off...