Journal of European Industrial Training: Volume 28 Issue 2/3/4
Table of contents
The reality of “new” careers for men and for women
Carol Ackah, Norma HeatonThe research for this paper focused on the career paths and career progression of men and women in management occupations. The study set out to explore the extent to which the…
Quality service in the international hotel sector: A catalyst for strategic human resource development?
Gill Maxwell, Sandra Watson, Samantha QuailThis paper analyses the nature of, and relationship between, a quality service initiative and the concept of strategic human resource development. Hilton International is the case…
International ethical dilemmas confronting Australian managers: Implications for the training and development of employees working overseas
Kerry Pedigo, Verena MarshallGlobalisation has seen diverse cultures becoming increasingly entwined and interdependent as business organisations operate in a borderless world. When organisations operate…
Assessing intercultural training designs
Andrea GrafTraining designs are critical to the success of intercultural training programmes. A common typology for classifying intercultural training designs distinguishes among the…
Improving interpersonal job skills by applying cross‐cultural training
S.A. BarkerThis paper presents an experimental study that examined the effects of cross‐cultural instruction on the interpersonal job skills of students in secondary vocational programs. The…
Training practices and organisational learning capability: Relationship and implications
Pilar Jerez Gómez, José J. Céspedes Lorente, Ramón Valle CabreraThis paper provides an in‐depth study of the relationship between the company's training strategy and its learning capability. On a sample of 111 Spanish companies from the…
Training and expectations on job mobility in the call centres sector
Inge Sieben, Andries de GripAnalyses whether the participation of workers in general, sector‐specific, and firm‐specific training affects their expectations on job mobility within or outside the call centres…
New graduate engagement with “professional development”: A pilot study
Rick Holden, Victoria HarteIf a key purpose of higher education is the development of students into ”critical lifelong learners” then first destination employment for graduates choosing…
A review of informal learning literature, theory and implications for practice in developing global professional competence
Thomas J. ConlonInformal learning's roots emerged from educational philosophers John Dewey, Kurt Lewin and Mary Parker Follett to theorists Malcolm Knowles and other successive researchers. This…
Competence in transition
Bob MansfieldThe former Soviet economies have, for the past 12 years, looked to the advanced economies in the west for help in reforming their systems of vocational education and training…
People management practices in the public health sector: Developments from Victoria, Australia
Pauline Stanton, Timothy Bartram, Raymond HarbridgeThis study investigates the impact on human resource management (HRM) practices in the public health sector in Victoria, Australia of two different government policy environments…
University‐industry partnerships: Implications for industrial training, opportunities for new knowledge
John Garrick, Andrew Chan, John LaiIn this paper it is argued that universities have lost their monopoly on the production and legitimation of knowledge. That workplaces are now sites of “valid” knowledge is a…
Frontline leaders: The entry point for leadership development in the manufacturing industry
Lucy Liu, Adela J. McMurrayThis multi‐method case study examined the roles, functions, capabilities, job satisfaction, strengths, weaknesses and skill gaps of frontline team leaders working on the shopfloor…