European Journal of Training and Development: Volume 45 Issue 4/5

The role of career competencies and proactive personality in early-career employee career adaptability

Ahmed Khamis AlKhemeiri, Khalizani Khalid, Norwahida Musa

Employees with high career competencies are more successful in career development. However, it is unclear whether proactivity matters for early-career employees. Thus, this study…

Training effectiveness and employee outcomes: a study of an Australian manufacturing organization

Saira Saira, Sadia Mansoor, Sadia Ishaque, Sadia Ehtisham, Muhammad Ali

This study aims to investigate whether the impact of effectiveness of diversity training on affective commitment is different for men versus women and whether affective commitment…

Trust initiation and development in SME-university collaborations: implications for enabling engaged scholarship

Fariba Darabi, Mark N.K. Saunders, Murray Clark

The purpose of this study is to explore trust initiation and development in collaborations between universities and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the implications…

Application of ESG measures for gender diversity and equality at the organizational level in a Korean context

Yonjoo Cho, Sehoon Kim, Jieun You, Hanna Moon, Hyoyong Sung

Global gender diversity and equality indexes have been developed to promote gender diversity and equality at the country level, but it is difficult to see how those indexes are…

Exploring the connection between organizations and organisms in dealing with change

Vishal Arghode, Narveen Jandu, Gary N. McLean

This paper aims to review organizational studies literature and related fields to explore the parallel between organizations and organisms in dealing with change.

Factors influencing graduate job choice – a systematic literature review

Divyang Purohit, Mitesh Jayswal, Ashutosh Muduli

The purpose of this paper, systematic literature review, is twofold: to identify the factors influencing graduate job choice and to propose a theoretical model that can be useful…

How is HRD related to other disciplines? The analysis of 100 most frequently cited empirical articles published in three HRD journals

Jaekyo Seo, Suhyung Lee, Alexandre Ardichvili

Human resource development (HRD) as an applied discipline is an example of a scholarly field that has emerged through the collaboration of scholars and practitioners with…

Conditional factors for training activities in Chinese, Indian and Mexican subsidiaries of German companies

Beke Vogelsang, Matthias Pilz

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the qualification measures of 12 German multi-national companies (MNCs), all of which are present in China, India and Mexico. In…

Learning, development and change in a community-based enterprise in Myanmar

Oliver S. Crocco, Maria Cseh

The purpose of this paper is to understand the process of large-scale organizational change in a community-based enterprise in Myanmar.

Learning style instruments in Arab countries: an analysis of existing literature

Darwish Abdulrahman Yousef

The purpose of this study is to examine learning style instruments used in Arab countries to measure higher education students’ learning styles, identify the most common…