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A Case Study On Learning Transfer In A Social Service Organization, Cynthia A. Barnes
A Case Study On Learning Transfer In A Social Service Organization, Cynthia A. Barnes
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Support from managers, training specialists, and human resource development specialists is needed if social service employees are to transfer learning to their organizations. There is a gap in the literature about managers, training specialists, and HRD specialists familiarizing employees with learning transfer expectations. This study addressed the way social service employees transferred what was learned after attending normal training classes. The research questions focused on learning transfer expectations for the employees, conditions that addressed during the learning transfer, processes that are in place where there was not a learning transfer initiative, and the way learning was used by employee. The …
Factors Impacting The Financial Independence Of Women Who Were Teenage Mothers, Jeanette Parker
Factors Impacting The Financial Independence Of Women Who Were Teenage Mothers, Jeanette Parker
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Teenage pregnancy in the United States is a national concern because of negative outcomes for teen mothers and their children of teen mothers. There is ample research on the negative outcomes associated with teen pregnancy: however, there is little research on the success of teenage mothers. This transcendental, phenomenological study examined how former teenage mothers overcame challenges of teen pregnancy to become financially independent adults. The research question for this study was: What factors enabled former teen mothers to overcome challenges of teen pregnancy to become financially independent adults? Principles from social learning theory and resilience theory provided the conceptual …