Innovation ist ein zentrales Thema in der Diskussion um die Wettbewerbsfaehigkeit von Unternehmen. Entscheidend fuer deren Innovationsfaehigkeit ist die Struktur der Belegschaft sowie deren Qualifikationsniveau und Qualifizierungsbereitschaft. Im Zuge der demografischen Entwicklung hat sich die...

Purpose – The paper aims to reveal and discuss the recent growing interest for personal development that seems to outline an emerging study field, and especially a flourishing industry of training business, but with many different approaches more or less related to individual needs and...

The hereby article aims to address the main question of whether organisational performance is directly or indirectly enhanced by business coaching. The research integrates a quantitative study having as major purpose the investigation of the manner in which business coaching contributes to...

In an attempt to determine what drives people to undertake a particular action, research, analytics and discussion on motivation continues. Decades of research and published studies has yet to bring forth a unified theory of motivation. In the last decade, serial research has brought about some...

Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific...

Studying motivation and the motives that make people act in a certain way has a fundamental importance in the management of human resources. The whole human behaviour has a cause, which is a consequence of hereditary combination and development. At the basis of human behaviour there are the...

Communication competences are an important indicator of professional success in most areas of activity and a predictor of social success of modern man. This study is a theoretical approach aimed to substantiate a number of good practices based on role-play as an active-participatory...

The name andragogy was first used by a German grammar school teacher named Alexander Kapp in 1833 to portray the educational theory of the Greek philosopher Plato. He used it to refer to the normal process by which adults engage in continuing education. The first use of the term "andragogy" to...

Coaching aims to identify and use those variables which will generate the best results and the process follows the transformation style of different moments, starting with the first moment, going through intermediate moments and ending with the final moment which should coincide with achieving...

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to explore the meditating role ofemployee motivation in the relationship between post-selection Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and perceived performance of Islamic Banks operating in Pakistan. This study was based onprimary data collected...