European Journal of Training and Development: Volume 37 Issue 4

The European Social Fund: a very specific case instrument of HRD policy

Eduardo Tomé

This paper aims to review the intervention of the European Social Fund (ESF) as an instrument of human resource development (HRD) policies in the European labor market.

Team learning beliefs and behaviours in response teams

Anne Boon, Elisabeth Raes, Eva Kyndt, Filip Dochy

Teams, teamwork and team learning have been the subject of many research studies over the last decades. This article aims at investigating and confirming the Team Learning Beliefs…

Does training influence organisational performance?: Analysis of the Spanish hotel sector

Mercedes Ubeda‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Vicente Sabater‐Sempere, Francisco García‐Lillo

The aim of the paper is to identify which variables of training policy have a significant and positive impact on organisational performance.

Robert Owen: a historiographic study of a pioneer of human resource development

Tim Hatcher

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ideals and activities of the nineteenth century Welsh industrialist and reformer Robert Owen (1771‐1858), and how they informed…