The importance of engaging in workplace learning

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Informal Settings ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Despite organizations spending billions of dollars each year on formal learning, >70 per cent of learning in the workplace is informal. Employees are constantly picking up additional skills, knowledge and ideas in informal settings. This article identifies the informal learning activities and learning processes that middle managers find most useful in their work and careers. Practical implications – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Social implications – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Expertise – from the mouths of babes

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Employees mostly learn informally by talking or collaborating with others, searching information online and feedback giving and seeking from colleagues and supervisors and reading. Next, it was found that organizational drivers, task and job drivers, personal drivers and formal learning influenced employees’ informal learning. Background characteristics, on the contrary, were not found to influence informal learning. Overall, within these categories, the following drivers had the greatest influence on informal learning: commitment to learning and development, feedback as well as interactions with and support from colleagues and supervisors. Practical implications The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Social interactions and workplace learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Heterogeneous Firms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Businesses that place strong emphasis on workplace learning become better positioned to succeed. Social interactions play a critical role in enabling the informal learning identified as an important aspect of learning overall. Leaders should therefore design tasks to enable such interaction which can become more significant still within culturally heterogeneous firms. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

The Google Knowledge Graph

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
The Web

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Becoming increasingly reliant on the web as a principal source of finding information is altering our brains and the way that we obtain and hold knowledge. We are becoming less reliant on our memories to hold knowledge, instead using technology – and search engines like Google in particular – to deposit and retrieve information. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations. Social implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Organizational learning through informal ties

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Informal learning ties posses scope to play a substantial role in the development of professionals. Creating such ties with different key internal and external stakeholders provides a valuable source of learning opportunities. Different social mechanisms can influence network creation and enhance the quality of learning that emerges as a result. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Leaders should be first among equals

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeReviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approachThis briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.FindingsAnyone who has been an employee for many years, and has worked for several different companies during that time, will know that it's extremely difficult to make sweeping statements about bosses. In a few cases they might have got there through ambition as much as talent, although a judicious combination of the two is more likely, and they are not always people with whom you would want to spend an evening in a bar. But once in situ, leaders' approaches to their role differ too much to make generalizations possible. This all provides fertile ground for experts examining leadership development.Practical implicationsProvides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.Social implicationsProvides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact.Originality/valueThe briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to‐digest format.

Increasing learning effectiveness in an SME context

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-37
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Right ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Finding an approach to learning that meets their requirements remains a challenge for SMEs. An appropriate blend of formal and informal learning aspects offers some encouragement and problem-based learning has the potential to tick the right boxes in this respect. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

How to cultivate a successful internship program

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-34
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – Internships are a popular way for people, generally young adults, to gain either paid or un-paid on-the-job training for white-collar and professional careers across different industries and job types, such as human resources, manufacturing, accounting, marketing, banking, hospitality and public relations. Practical implications – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Social implications – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

How HR practitioners must keep on learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – In business management, no one emerges fully formed from their professional training. A serious issue in human resource might sometimes be a tendency for future development to be erratic. Traditionally, continuing professional development is all about formal experiences, the sort of things that practitioners meet up with over the years by turning up to do their job. There is, however, a growing view that non-formal learning mechanisms have a part to play. At the same time, continuing professional development has to be broader than conventional courses – a combination of both formal and non-formal learning experiences are surely required. Practical implications – The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Why choose organic food?

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Heads Of State ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings – There is agreement, between many countries, on the need for sustainable development. Despite the fact, however, that some countries are still reluctant, several meetings have at least taken place between heads of state, authorities, researchers and society, which demonstrates that concern for sustainable development is now a priority. Practical implications – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations. Social implications – Provides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact. Originality/value – The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Employee benefits provision

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Employee Benefits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeReviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approachThis briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.FindingsThe range and scope of employee benefits are growing rapidly, but for benefits to make a positive impact on an individual, the individual first needs to be aware of and understand the benefits their employer currently offers.Practical implicationsProvides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.Social implicationsProvides strategic insights and practical thinking that can have a broader social impact.Originaity/valueThe briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to‐digest format.

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