Journal of European Industrial Training: Volume 28 Issue 7

Social factors that impact women's practice of breast self‐examination: A challenge to the transfer of training literature

Patricia A. London, Daniele D. Flannery

The purpose of the qualitative study was to understand how social factors might help or hinder the training transfer process. Specifically, this qualitative research looked at the…

Development of a performance appraisal training program for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Deborah Kilgore Ford

“Nobody w ants to get one. Nobody wants to give one.” The problem was that the supervisors and managers of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) did not know how to use…

Managerial career anchors in a changing business environment

Bromley H. Kniveton

Trainers need to consider changes in working practices, which, it is argued, influence managers' perceptions of their careers. A total of 540 managers were interviewed, and a…

Learning at work and competence: different contexts and meanings in the case of transition economy

Krista Loogma

In this paper, the author analyses the different patterns of learning one can find in the organisations of two contrasting economic fields representing different contexts for…

The cooperation of small and middle‐sized companies with universities in Turkey: Acquiring Enterprising Skills Project

Figen Dalyan

Higher education institutions are the places from where the societies base the information, deliver and apply it. Moreover, it is the place where the people who are required to…