This study investigates the influence of personality characteristics and employees' motivation to learn on safety training transfer, in the context of a chemical manufacturing company. The study focuses on five personality characteristics: Locus of Control, Extraversion, Conscientiousness,...

Context: Through a dual model, based on 2 years of education in upper secondary school followed by two and a half year of apprenticeship training, Norwegian plumbing education has become an integrated part of the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Competence and skills are...

Context: Two major challenges in professional and vocational education (VET) are low levels of relevance and coherence between the content of the educational program and developing competence in working life. This article is based on an action research project, conducted as a series of...

Preparing can be presented basically as a procedure of helping an individual for upgrading his productivity and adequacy to a specific work region by getting more information and practices. Likewise, preparing is critical to building up explicit aptitudes, capacities, and information to a...

Developing countries are facing one of the most critical encounters about the training and development of the skills and knowledge of their people. Through skilled and knowledgeable employees an organization can perform successfully and might strive within the field of their pathway. Recent...

This open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region. It also assesses how education and training philosophies, curricula, and pedagogy can be reshaped...