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Employee Learning Processes In New Zealand Small Manufacturing Firms, Alan Coetzer, Raja Peter, Vasanthi Peter
Employee Learning Processes In New Zealand Small Manufacturing Firms, Alan Coetzer, Raja Peter, Vasanthi Peter
Alan Coetzer
We investigate differences between the ways novices and experienced specialists perceive their workplaces as learning environments and also examine differences between the learning processes of these two groups of employees. The study’s research questions are explored by applying discriminant analysis to survey data collected from 218 employees in 31 New Zealand small manufacturing firms. We found that novices and experienced specialists do differ significantly in their perceptions of (1) work-environment conditions that either help or hinder learning, (2) supervisors’ proximate support for learning, and (3) satisfaction with workplace learning. We also found that novices and experienced specialists do differ significantly …
Reshoring Offers Hope To R.I., U.S., Koray Özpolat, Stu Westin
Reshoring Offers Hope To R.I., U.S., Koray Özpolat, Stu Westin
Koray Özpolat
While dining with Silicon Valley executives in February 2011, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to manufacture iPhones in the United States. Jobs, in his straightforward tone, replied: “These jobs aren’t coming back!” Surprisingly, only two years later, Jobs’s successor Tim Cook announced Apple’s plans to bring some manufacturing jobs home by making the new iMacs in the U.S. Since then, reports of iMacs sporting a backside stamp “Assembled in USA” have flooded the media.