Improving Workplace Learning

This book has the great strength of being based on an extremely rich and detailed foundation of research data. Because of this, it is able to firmly locate workplace learning within the wider settings of the employment relationship and widely differing organisational strategies. It should be required reading for all involved in public policy on skills. Professor Ewart Keep is deputy director of the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance at the University of Cardiff Improving Workplace Learning represents one of the most inclusive approaches yet to understanding these complex processes. The book combines attention to macro-social and situational organizational conditions with sensitivity to individual workers' often conflicting experiences and dispositions. It deserves the attention of all interested in practical job redesign to enhance both workplace learning and fulfilling work. David W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work as well as Head of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto Karen Evans et al gives me a confidence, as an industrialist, that 'high performance work organisations' can be developed from within to raise the quality and profile of integrated learning that will make a difference to business and public organisations. There are opportunities and benefits in the research covered in this book for all employees, employers, colleges, universities and private providers. Dr Alan Hearsum, Alan is the Chief Executive of the Glass Training Board. Pilkington; Autoglass