...Sateesh V. Shet Purpose The author aims to develop an employee competency framework for a volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) environment and propose learning and development (L&D) interventions for organisations and employees to develop competencies for thriving in a VUCA...

... performance when organizational learning is blended with a specific coaching behavior of their manager. Design/methodology/approach Using primary data from 298 software engineers working in select information technology companies across India, the current study attempts to assess moderating effect...

...Pattanee Susomrith; Alan Coetzer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between task-based and interactional informal learning practices in small professional services firms and the moderating role of proactivity in the relationship. Design/methodology/approach Job...

...Liat Eldor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between perceptions of learning climate and employee innovative behavior and proficiency. Design/methodology/approach Using robust analysis techniques on data from a sample of 419 employees and their supervisors from...

...Sophie Hennekam Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on two studies on thriving, the joint experience of vitality and learning, among workers aged 50 or above in the Netherlands. Design/methodology/approach The first study draws on the analysis of 920 surveys and links thriving...

... training design method which utilizes active learning and structured feedback to enhance learning of both procedural and declarative knowledge. Design/methodology/approach Volunteers (n=416) were randomly assigned to full-length lecture-based training or abbreviated lecture-based training...

...Russell Warhurst Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop understanding of the theory of identity-work and to then deploy this understanding in examining managers’ identity-work. These understandings provide a basis for appreciating managers’ receptivity to learning and, in turn...

... Generalist Knowledge workers Learning Pharmaceutical sector Organisational learning has become an important topic of research as firms seek to leverage its benefits in their ongoing quest for competitive advantage. In this regard, the notion of “ambidextrous learning” or “the balancing...

...Jens Rowold; Simone Kauffeld Purpose The present study aims to examine how employees' formal (e.g. off‐the‐job training) and informal (e.g. discussion with colleagues) career‐related continuous learning (CRCL) activities affect the development of self‐reported work‐related competencies. Design...

...Joanna Karmowska The final section draws the book to a close by presenting an open agenda for further work and research. Here, two different yet complementary perspectives are presented, the first by John Stirling who writes about the new challenges that trade union learning faces in response...

... (encouraging feedback), and physiological and affective states (arousal). While enactive mastery experience is a primary indicator of capability, Bandura (1965, 1977) has drawn particular attention to the influence of social learning for skill development. He proposed that, in the absence of direct...

...Mary Mallon; Sara Walton Purpose Seeks to explore how individuals talk about learning when asked about career. Design/methodology/approach Brings together three qualitative research studies, based in the UK and New Zealand on how individuals make sense of career; one focused on people...

... enjoy in‐house promotions both demonstrate a greater degree of positive learning goal orientation than their colleagues who remain stationary in long‐term positions with the same firm. Makes note of the inability of performance goal orientation and organizational commitment to explain employee mobility...

...Mark Farrell; Felix T. Mavondo This paper integrates literature from downsizing and organisational learning. A conceptual framework is developed which argues that downsizing (adaptive or single loop learning) and reorientation (double loop or generative learning) will have a negative and positive...

... discusses how emotions can become an obstacle to change and how people that are unable to mobilize and act in a changed way become less receptive to discussions about change. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Organizational change Emotional dissonance Employees Learning Depression...

...Eddie W.L. Cheng; Danny C.K. Ho This article reviews some major studies that were conducted in the past decade (1989‐1998) on the transfer of what employees learned from training programmes back to their jobs. A conceptual framework is developed for this article to better present the “popular...

... such initiatives are implemented in practice. The perspective of the organisation in relation to employee development is further enhanced with findings from the perspective of the individual employee. These findings show the impact of employee development initiatives on individuals’ willingness to learn and take...

...Richard Holden Presents an initial evaluation of a pilot scheme in non‐vocational employee development (ED) introduced into one section of a water company. Locates the initative within the context of growing interest in ED schemes and their relationship to ideas about learning culture...

...John G. Burgoyne Learning from experience assumes particular importance at times of fundamental transition because inherited learning becomes irrelevant or misleading. The current fundamental transition is from work for the production of knowledge to work for the production of identify/meaning...

.... While each manager′s journey was found to be unique, the framework proved to be ubiquitous in enabling the mapping of all the managers′ journeys, and it also accommodates literature on phenomena as diverse as learning, personal transition, catastrophe and survival, trauma and stress, loss and “death...