Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 14 Issue 7

IT tools in personnel training in small enterprises: results of Project “Apply”

Tauno Kekäle, Karin Pirolt, Claudia Falter

This paper describes the findings of an European four‐country study that attempted to pinpoint the practical impediments the small enterprises face when attempting to use…

Self‐directed work teams in a post‐apartheid gold mine: perspectives from the rock face

Timothy Sizwe Phakathi

Increasing international competition requires companies to empower and develop the skills of workers at the lower levels. This paper will show how implementing change from below…

Team self‐assessment: problem solving for small workgroups

Robert LoBue

The “team self‐assessment” is introduced here as an effective mechanism for front‐line supervisors to develop new procedures and process improvements directed at accomplishing…

Research and the pedagogics of work and learning

Bruce Spencer

This paper argues that workplace learning is a problematic activity that may not result in the celebration of employee empowerment and autonomy that is often claimed but in the…