Purpose
The paper aims to highlight how an applied learning framework or “community of practice” (CoP) combined with a traditional theoretical course of study enables the identification of teaching-learning processes which facilitate knowledge transfer from practitioners to graduate information technology (IT) students for quicker integration in the labour market.
Design/methodology/approach
CoPs are identified based on cluster analysis according to Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (1984), with data obtained through a survey. Empirical research is applied to the CoP developed within a non-formal learning framework, principal new actors being IT specialists linked to graduate IT students and teachers on a traditional university course. Graduate IT students can gain knowledge of the ideal employee and the social and emotional skills needed to integrate with the IT labour market.
Findings
The K-Means algorithm helps to identify clusters of graduate IT students displaying necessary knowledge acceptance behaviour to convert them into specialists. The results of the cluster analysis show different learning styles of the labour force, providing an overview of candidate selection methods and the knowledge, skills and attitudes expected by users.
Research limitations/implications
Although the research adds value to the existing literature on learning styles and the knowledge and core skills needed by IT specialists, it was limited to an emerging market.
Originality/value
The study provides a preliminary overview of graduate IT students’ attitudes from an emerging market to the re-engineering of academic learning contexts to facilitate professional knowledge transfer, converting them into IT practitioners and integrating them in the labour market of an emerging economy.
In the paper an employee leasing has been shown in the light of chosen labour market theories and management conceptions. The conducted analysis indicated that an employee leasing – as an institution of Labour Market Intermediaries (LMIs) – is presented as a nonstandard form of employment which is connected with a little attractive work and with low standards of human resources management. The analyzed case study of employee leasing usage in the capital group structure does not enter the mainstream of theoretical considerations. A company which leases employees uses nonstandard forms of employment to all employees (also in the sphere of stabilization and the core of employment) and the used tools of human resources management are highly professional. The specifics of the analyzed solution are connected with the phenomenon of knowledge transfer and isomorphism in capital group structure.
Specyfika relacji w ramach leasingu pracowniczego w strukturze grupy kapitałowej