TY  - BOOK
ED  - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, Thessaloniki (Greece).
TI  - The Role of the Company in Generating Skills: The Learning Effects of Work Organisation. Synthesis Report. CEDEFOP Document 
SN  - 9789282823675
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Luxembourg
PB  - Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
KW  - Adult education
KW  - ericd
KW  - Communicative competence
KW  - Continuing education
KW  - Economic Change
KW  - Education Work Relationship
KW  - Educational Policy
KW  - Employer Employee Relationship
KW  - Employment Practices
KW  - Employment Qualifications
KW  - Foreign Countries
KW  - Job Skills
KW  - Job Training
KW  - Learning Processes
KW  - Organizational Change
KW  - Postsecondary Education
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Skill Development
KW  - Synthesis
KW  - Training Methods
KW  - Vocational Education
KW  - Work Environment
KW  - Comparative Analysis
KW  - Reports, Research
N1  - Availability: Bernan Associates, 4611-F Assembly Drive, Lanham, MD 20706-4391; toll-free phone: 800-274-4447; e-mail: query@bernan.com; world wide web: http://www.bernan.com (catalogue no. HX-89-95-050-EN-C: 8 European Currency Units); Electronic reproduction
N2  - This report synthesizes the findings of a study of continuing training policy in nine countries of the European Community: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The following are among the topics discussed: the study's objectives and methods; characteristics of new forms of work and production organization (diversity of forms of work organization and production models; quantitative versus qualitative flexibility; reliability and adaptability of production; reliability of interorganizational networks; flexibility, adaptability, and training of operators); principles behind new forms of work organization (problem of the newness of know-how; main lines in organizational restructuring, links to the dynamics of know-how and skills; restructuring of know-how: the Tandem product/market or the "marketable product"? know-how or attitudes; distancing: necessary conditions for the training content of new organizations, trends and connecter-trends); the increase in training and shifts in training efforts; discrete knowledge and discrete training; explicit training (varied use of formalized continuing training, policy design and content validation, recognition, and certification); and new training practices, training policy, and employment and labor relations policies (links between forms of training in enterprises and initial and continuing training policies, consequences for employment and the labor market, reversibility and irreversibility of new forms of organization, actors and the social dialogue). The bibliography contains 143 references. (MN)
UR  - https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED418236
ER  -