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Investors in People (IIP), the heavily promoted government initiative to enhance organisations’ training and … workplace relations. The IIP agenda of formalising training and development does not appear to sit easily with these processes …; and appears to neglect the significance of informal training. Moreover, the requirements go against the grain of the …
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This study investigates whether there is a set of universal senior management competencies in the context of one large multi‐site service organisation. Four distinct work environments are identified and different lists of competencies are perceived to be important by managers working at the...
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The concept of “winners” has become a popular motif in the design of training programmes, especially in the area of … customer service. This paper examines the case of one such training programme at “CapitalAirport”, with the purpose of …
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employees learned from training programmes back to their jobs. A conceptual framework is developed for this article to better … highlights that some individual, motivational and environmental factors are related to transfer of training. Second, some … outcomes. Some new individual (e.g. achievement striving), motivational (e.g. trainee‐control‐over‐training) and environmental …
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) in the Midlands. The paper describes IIP, then considers the significance of SMEs and the impact of training and … Training and Enterprise Councils in promoting IIP to SMEs also comes under scrutiny, and our study has lessons for the …
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To diffuse new management fads or to promote existing management practices slogans are often used. In this study eight slogans regarding assessment centres were retrieved from brochures of consultancy agencies and were compared to empirical research. These slogans were that assessment centres...
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In the past two decades, the way enterprises in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) manage their human resources has changed dramatically. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have entered into the “strategic investor” phase, where now the integration of PRC operations into the MNE network...
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In this study, we examined whether employees’ perceived importance of the training program would be one variable that … mediates the relationship between training assignment and training motivation. Data were collected from 184 employees belonging … to 18 banks who attended government‐sponsored training programs in Northern Taiwan. Participants were asked to complete …
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Purpose – The paper examines what are the effects of the different types of cross‐cultural training (CCT) on …
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potential conflict, this paper examines whether Western expatriates in joint ventures benefit from cross‐cultural training … and other types of organisations in China. Findings – Results show that training had a weak positive association with work … implications – This paper emphasises the work context in China when training expatriate candidates. Alternatively, individuals …
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