. Employees in Japanese companies also evaluated their training significantly higher than their counterparts in European companies …

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 …

The burgeoning literature on vocational education and training (VET) has failed to provide an adequate theoretical … basis by which to understand training outcomes. Critically appraises the notion of a “low skill equilibrium” and highlights … approach to training provision. Emphasizes the importance of addressing developments in production and illustrates this by …

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 …

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 …

) 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 … promotion of IIP by the new learning and skills councils.  …