... to training. Design/methodology/approach This article is based on data from the Study on Life Long Learning and Employment by TNO (Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research), a three‐wave longitudinal study among lower educated workers in three different companies in The Netherlands. Data...

... of a University Medical Centre in The Netherlands. Semi‐structured interviews with nine coaching couples were conducted. Findings The findings indicate that only one coaching couple succeeded in using coaching as an effective tool for stimulating reflection and the performance of the beginning clinical...

... at: lesley2.moore@uwe.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Workplace learning Learning organizations Learning methods Health services The Netherlands United Kingdom Historically, within British healthcare education any developments have tended to be uni‐professional...

... to competencies. Competences Entrepreneurialism Horticulture Learning Innovation The Netherlands Much research on skills development and workplace learning is about employees, for instance nurses (Berings et al., 2006), policemen (Doornbos, 2006) and low skilled workers (Raemdonck, 2006...

...@stoas.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Workplace learning Workplace training Innovation The Netherlands Work‐related learning could be seen as the key to understand current transition from a post‐industrial towards an information (or knowledge) society at both individual...

... versus knowledge shielding. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Knowledge management Human resource development Consultancies Case studies The Netherlands The identification by Drucker (1993) of knowledge as the new basis of competition in post capitalist society launched a series of attempts...