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.

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.

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.

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.

Taking workplace learning back to school

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 23-25
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Secondary Schooling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Single Instance ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
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 – This is a serious question, although it may not appear that way, but it must be asked anyway: does Harry Potter actually learn anything while at Hogwarts school? The now wizard spends seven years and there are thousands of highly lucrative words devoted to his secondary schooling, but is there a single instance where readers witness him being taught something, and then he is able to provide evidence that he has learnt something? If, as some people have argued, Harry Potter is an allegory for education in the modern era, then the satirical intent of JK Rowling should perhaps be given more credence. 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.

Learning and development for critical care nurses

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Critical Care Nurses ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
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 A focus on workplace learning is essential for professions, like nursing. However, differences in the respective learning opportunities available to permanent and temporary staff presents considerable challenges with regards to the ongoing development that is so critical for employees in a healthcare context. 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.

Informal learning and employee development

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Employee Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
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 Informal learning offers a cost-effective means of employee development for smaller businesses and a variety of strategies can be utilized to help achieve learning goals. The approach has scope to increase an employee’s internal marketability, though companies must remain alert to the danger of simultaneously making individuals more widely employable. 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.

Pitfalls in planning flexibility

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-9
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Deficit ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
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 – This paper comments on the understanding and use of “right to request” flexible working arrangements, from both an employee and manager/organization perspective. There was a considerable knowledge deficit among employees making requests for flexible working, and also among their managers, and a high level of informality in the processing of requests. Managers play a critical role in structuring both the procedure and the substantive outcomes of flexible working arrangement (FWA) requests. Managers’ personal experience and levels of commitment to FWAs are critical in the process. 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.

How Phillips saw the light

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Business World ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Freak Show ◽  
The World ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
The One ◽  
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 The problem with developing a reputation of being something of an oracle in the business world is that all of a sudden, everyone expects you to pull off the trick of interpreting the future on a daily basis. Like a freak show circus act or one-hit wonder pop singer, people expect you to perform when they see you, and they expect you to perform the thing that made you famous, even if it is the one thing in the world you don’t want to do. And when you fail to deliver on these heightened expectations, you are dismissed as a one trick pony, however good that trick is in the first place. 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.

Negotiation and corporate strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Organizational Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Consistent Approach

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 Negotiation is a key tool in delivering competitive advantage but requires a clear and consistent approach closely linked to organizational strategy. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists 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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