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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 8.504 by 5.433 inches. (224 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. Across the western word, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workpace earning, seen at the eve of nationa and internationa poicy, as we as in the deveoping practices of empoyers, training providers and Trades Unions. Authoritative, accessibe, and appeaing, it presents key findings on work-based earning, bringing together concusions and investigating a variety of workpace contexts to show how such earning can be improved. An extensive practica treatment, brought to ife with iustrations from both the pubic and private sectors, this book has a unique combination of breadth of coverage and depth of understanding. Grounded in rich and detaied empirica studies, this voume chaenges conventiona thinking. An important new addition to the Improving Learning series, it focuses on guideines for improving earning bymarryingthe very best theory and practice to provide an accessibe and authoritative guide to workpace earning. Practitioners, poicy makers, students and academics with an interest in earning at work wi find this an invauabe addition to their booksheves. Part 1: 1. Workpace Learning: Perspectives and Chaenges Part 2: 2. Expansive and Restrictive Learning Environments 3. Appying the Expansive Restrictive Framework 4. Learner Biographies, Workpace Practices and Learning 5. How Individuas Infuence Workpace Practices, and Work can Change Worker Dispositions and Identities 6. Workpace Learning: The Direct and Indirect Impact of Poicy Interventions 7. The Direct and Indirect Impact of Poicy Interventions - Case Studies from the Research Part 3: 8. Improving Workpace Learning: An Integrated Approach. Appendix on Research Methodoogy. 'The book's main theme is to encourage and deveop workpace earning and frameworks that can be appied to continuing professiona deveopment. It is therefore invauabe for a nursing professionas, as we as those working in human resources, providers of work-based earning and heath poicy makers.' - Haze Courtney, earning and deveopment manager, Manchester Primary Care Trust for Nursing Standards 'This book has the great strength of being based on an extremey rich and detaied foundation of research data. Because of this, it is abe to firmy ocate workpace earning within the wider settings of the empoyment reationship and widey differing organisationa strategies. It shoud be required reading for a invoved in pubic poicy on skis.' - Professor Ewart Keep,Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre on Skis, Knowedge and Organizationa Performance, University of Cardiff, UK 'Improving Workpace Learning represents one of the most incusive approaches yet to understanding these compex processes. The book combines attention to macro-socia and situationa organizationa conditions with sensitivity to individua workers? often conficting experiences and dispositions. It deserves the attention of a interested in practica job redesign to enhance both workpace earning and fufiing work.'- David W. Livingstone, Canada Research Chair in Lifeong Learning and Work as we as Head of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada 'Karen Evans et a gives me a confidence, as an industriaist, that ?high performance work organisations? can be deveoped from within to raise the quaity and profie of integrated earning that wi make a difference to business and pubic organisations. There are opportunities and benefits in the research covered in this book for a empoyees, empoyers, coeges, universities and private providers.' - Aan Hearsum,Chief Executive of the Gass Training Board, Pikington, Autogass (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415371198

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Book Description: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL 01/04/2012, 2012. Hardback. Book Condition: New. New print on demand book. Shipped from US. This item is printed on demand. Bookseller Inventory # IJ-9780415371193

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Book Description: Taylor and Francis Ltd Country = UNITED KINGDOM, 2012. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 224 pages. This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. {Publisher's Publication Date = 2006} Presenting key findings on work-based learning, this work brings together conclusions, investigating a variety of workplace contexts to show how such learning can be improved. 4 black and white illustrations, 4 black and white line drawings (Hardback). Bookseller Inventory # AB0415371198

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Book Description: Taylor & Francis Ltd. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW PRINT ON DEMAND., Improving Workplace Learning, Karen Evans, Lorna Unwin, Helen Rainbird, Phil Hodkinson, Across the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international policy, as well as in the developing practices of employers, training providers and Trades Unions. This key text is the first on workplace learning in a new series published in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). Authoritative, accessible, and appealing, it presents key findings on work-based learning, bringing together conclusions from five different projects, and investigating a variety of workplace contexts. An extensive practical treatment, the included research has a unique combination of breadth of coverage and depth of understanding which significantly advances the understanding of workplace learning. This exceptional volume, grounded in rich and detailed empirical studies, challenges conventional thinking. It shows how workplace learning can be improved if close attention is paid to the relationship between organizational context, individual worker biographies, and regulatory frameworks. Multi-authored, but with a centrally organized and clear argument, it takes a broad perspective on workplace learning as in, for, and through the workplace. A unique and broad-ranging text, Evans, Hodkinson, Rainbird and Unwin bring together social and individual perspectives to give an accessible overview of the key debates and explain the uneven impact of workplace learning policies. Practitioners, policy makers, students and academics with an interest in learning at work will find this an invaluable addition to their bookshelves. Bookseller Inventory # B9780415371193

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Book Description: Taylor Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, 2006. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 138 x 216 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery ***** Print on Demand *****. Across the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international policy, as well as in the developing practices of employers, training providers and Trades Unions. This key text is the first on workplace learning in a new series published in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). Authoritative, accessible, and appealing, it presents key findings on work-based learning, bringing together conclusions from five different projects, and investigating a variety of workplace contexts. An extensive practical treatment, the included research has a unique combination of breadth of coverage and depth of understanding which significantly advances the understanding of workplace learning. This exceptional volume, grounded in rich and detailed empirical studies, challenges conventional thinking. It shows how workplace learning can be improved if close attention is paid to the relationship between organizational context, individual worker biographies, and regulatory frameworks.Multi-authored, but with a centrally organized and clear argument, it takes a broad perspective on workplace learning as in, for, and through the workplace. A unique and broad-ranging text, Evans, Hodkinson, Rainbird and Unwin bring together social and individual perspectives to give an accessible overview of the key debates and explain the uneven impact of workplace learning policies. Practitioners, policy makers, students and academics with an interest in learning at work will find this an invaluable addition to their bookshelves. Bookseller Inventory # APC9780415371193

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Book Description: Routledge, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 210 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0415371198

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Book Description: Routledge, 2012. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 8.76 by 5 inches. (00210 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. {Publisher's Publication Date = 2006-10-01 00:00:00} [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] illustrated Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Hardcover ). Bookseller Inventory # AF0415371198

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 1st. 140mm x 18mm x 223mm. Print on Demand 210 pages. 0.381. Bookseller Inventory # 9780415371193

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