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Differential effects of schooling and cognitive and non-cognitive skills on labour market outcomes: The case of the garment industry in Ethiopia 教育、认知和非认知技能对劳动力市场结果的不同影响:埃塞俄比亚制衣业的案例

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12252

Shoko Yamada, Christian S. Otchia

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引用次数: 2

A new path to training transfer: Transformational trainers and psychologically empowered training participants 培训转移的新途径:转型培训师和心理授权培训参与者

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-12-27 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12256

Laura Elisabeth Creon, Carsten Christoph Schermuly

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引用次数: 6

Perceptions of accountability for the transfer of training by leadership trainers 领导培训师转移培训的责任观念

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-12-16 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12255

Susanne Wisshak, Dorothee Barth

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引用次数: 6

Determinants of attrition in agricultural training programmes: Insights from the next generation cocoa youth programme in Ghana 农业培训计划中损耗的决定因素:来自加纳下一代可可青年计划的见解

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-12-10 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12253

Shaibu Baanni Azumah, Gilbert Dagunga, Abraham Zakaria, Nathaniel A. Boateng, Kwadwo B. Mensah, Ethel S. Boateng

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Formal and informal learning as deterrents of turnover intentions: Evidence from frontline workers during a crisis 正式和非正式学习对离职意向的威慑作用:来自危机期间一线员工的证据

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-12-07 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12254

Jason G. Randall, Ricardo R. Brooks, Martin J. Heck

{"title":"Formal and informal learning as deterrents of turnover intentions: Evidence from frontline workers during a crisis","authors":"Jason G. Randall, Ricardo R. Brooks, Martin J. Heck","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12254","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12254","url":null,"abstract":"Employee learning and development is critical to organizational success, particularly during times of crisis when increased volatility and demand necessitate adaptability and skill. We draw on theories of workplace learning and social exchange to investigate the unique influence of formal training, informal learning, and organizational support for training on the turnover intentions of frontline workers battling COVID-19. Survey data were gathered from a sample of Direct Support Professionals (N = 481) in New York state who continued their work supporting individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities during the global coronavirus pandemic. The results support our predictions that employee engagement in formal training and, to a lesser extent, informal learning, as well as individuals’ perceptions of organizational support for training, explain unique variance in turnover intentions. Alternative predictors, including tenure and region, explained some unique variance in turnover intentions, but neither age nor learning goal orientation demonstrated meaningful effects. Relative weights analysis revealed that the strongest negative predictors of turnover intentions were organizational support for training and engagement in formal training. Altogether these findings identify possible methods of deterring turnover intentions, by highlighting the key role that organizations play in supporting continuous learning amongst their employees, even in times of crisis. Implications of this study are discussed for research and practice on workforce learning and development for frontline workers and others, more generally.","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"26 2","pages":"185-208"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49509950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Conceptualising regional skills ecosystems: Reflections on four African cases 区域技能生态系统的概念化:对四个非洲案例的思考

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-11-22 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12251

Volker Wedekind, Jo-Anna Russon, Presha Ramsarup, David Monk, Luke Metelerkamp, Simon McGrath

{"title":"Conceptualising regional skills ecosystems: Reflections on four African cases","authors":"Volker Wedekind, Jo-Anna Russon, Presha Ramsarup, David Monk, Luke Metelerkamp, Simon McGrath","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12251","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12251","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we address the debate on regional skills formation systems in Africa. We draw on the social ecosystems model (SEM) developed by Hodgson and Spours to analyse data from four case studies that reflect the complexities of African economies, rural and urban, formal and informal. The SEM model helps us focus on the three dimensions of a strong skills ecosystem: collaboration between a range of actors, key institutions and system leaders within the region (the horizontal); top-down policies, regulations, and funding streams that enable or constrain the regional skills ecosystem (the vertical); and the points where these two interact, often through mediation activities. In the case of the last of these three, our cases point to the importance of nurturing organisations which can provide SEM leadership, particularly in more fragile ecosystems. Yet, in none of the cases, are public vocational institutions playing the strong anchor role envisaged in the model. The significance of the paper lies in three ways it develops the SEM in relation to regional skills ecosystems. First, we problematise the notion of a facilitatory state and place it within wider national and global webs of power. Second, we insist that the local or regional is always embedded in and networked into myriad national and international levels. This requires a more complex understanding of how social skills ecosystems operate. Third, the notion of an anchor institution requires further elaboration. In most social ecosystems these institutions need to be built or strengthened and a clearer understanding is required of the processes of institutionalisation and what mechanisms make it possible to build this capacity and sustain it over time.","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 4","pages":"347-362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijtd.12251","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46672737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 11

The emergence of innovations through the encounter of knowledges in “the local”. How fresh action emerges in networks 通过“本地”知识的相遇而出现的创新。新的行动是如何在网络中出现的

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-11-08 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12241

Iris Clemens

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German-style dual apprenticeship training in the Greater Shanghai Area- Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics 大上海地区德国式双学徒培训——空间集聚动态

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-11-04 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12245

Judith Wiemann

{"title":"German-style dual apprenticeship training in the Greater Shanghai Area- Spatial Agglomeration Dynamics","authors":"Judith Wiemann","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12245","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12245","url":null,"abstract":"A considerable number of German multinational enterprises (MNE) are located in the Greater Shanghai Area. German MNE in the industrial sector show an inclination to export German forms of technical training—more specifically German-style dual apprenticeship training—to their worldwide subsidiaries. Within China, this is especially the case for the Greater Shanghai Area, which has established itself as a ‘hotspot’ for dual apprenticeship training in the last 15 years. This paper explores what makes the Greater Shanghai Area such a ‘hotspot’ for dual apprenticeship training—in international comparison—by focusing on factors influencing the spatial agglomeration of dual apprenticeship training activities in this region. The paper finds unevenly distributed institutional resources regarding the attraction of German Foreign Direct Investment as well as unevenly distributed resources at the skill formation system level as important influencing factors. Both factors show ‘self-reinforcing’ dynamics strengthening already existing spatial agglomeration of dual apprenticeship training activities.","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 4","pages":"383-401"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijtd.12245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49119147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A measurement scale developed to investigate the effect of leaders' perceptions regarding attitudes towards and commitment to quality management of training 开发了一个测量量表来调查领导者对培训质量管理的态度和承诺的看法的影响

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-10-25 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12243

Renier (RC) Els, Helen (HW) Meyer, Suria (S) Ellis

{"title":"A measurement scale developed to investigate the effect of leaders' perceptions regarding attitudes towards and commitment to quality management of training","authors":"Renier (RC) Els, Helen (HW) Meyer, Suria (S) Ellis","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12243","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12243","url":null,"abstract":"It is broadly acknowledged that, for quality management to be effective, it needs to be viewed and implemented as a dynamic and active process by people in an organisation, specifically its leaders. This study aimed to determine the level of leaders' commitment with regard to their perceptions and attitudes concerning quality management of training in corps training units within the South African Army. The Leader Perception and Attitude Scale was developed for this purpose. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a sample of 229 leaders at six of the eight South African Army's corps training units. Correlation coefficients were determined, and structural equation modelling was performed. The results indicated that leaders' attitudes had a statistically significant influence on their commitment (p < 0.001), whereas perceptions had no statistically significant influence (p = 0.488). The results contrast with previous studies, which have mostly indicated that perceptions influence employee commitment. By targeting leaders' attitudes, therefore, the South African Army may be able to design and implement appropriate strategies to improve leaders' commitment and thereby enhance training effectiveness. The potential usefulness of a scale that measures the level of commitment of leaders and is able to indicate the level of effect that perceptions and attitudes can have, may be of interest to other military settings and organisations that conduct in-house training.","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"26 1","pages":"120-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijtd.12243","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44567007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Transnational education for regional economic development? Understanding Malaysia's and Singapore's strategic coupling in global higher education 跨国教育促进区域经济发展?了解马来西亚与新加坡在全球高等教育中的战略对接

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International Journal of Training and Development Pub Date : 2021-10-18 DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12242

Marc Philipp Schulze, Jana Maria Kleibert

{"title":"Transnational education for regional economic development? Understanding Malaysia's and Singapore's strategic coupling in global higher education","authors":"Marc Philipp Schulze, Jana Maria Kleibert","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.12242","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ijtd.12242","url":null,"abstract":"Fostering innovation and upskilling labour pools have become key goals in national economic development plans and education and training system reforms since the mid-1990s. For their transformation into knowledge-based economies, countries in Southeast Asia have relied on importing transnational higher education providers and have envisioned themselves as international education hubs. As existing research from transnational education and higher education governance studies as well as economic geography and regional studies has not sufficiently addressed this nexus of transnational education and regional economic development, this paper investigates the role of foreign higher education institutions in economic development strategies in Malaysia and Singapore. It explores why and how states have strategically coupled their higher education systems with transnational education. The comparative case analysis draws on empirical evidence from 42 semi-structured interviews. It finds that despite the two states' ostensibly similar ambitions to attract foreign higher education institutions, policies and outcomes differ strongly. Whereas in Malaysia a structural coupling led foreign subsidiaries to provide foreign degrees to domestic students and generate revenue in the private higher education sector, in Singapore foreign subsidiaries have been deployed strategically to upgrade the talent pool and public higher education system of the city-state via functional coupling. Conceptualizing transnational education policies as forms of strategic coupling contributes to understanding their embeddedness within states' broader, historically formed economic development strategies.","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"25 4","pages":"363-382"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2021-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijtd.12242","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42490759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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