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What We Know About Employer-Provided Training: A Review Of Literature, John H. Bishop
What We Know About Employer-Provided Training: A Review Of Literature, John H. Bishop
John H Bishop
While the importance of on-the-job training is recognized by everyone, it is a phenomenon that is very difficult to study. Most training is informal and hard to measure and its effects on productivity are even more difficult to quantify. An elegant theory explaining how the quantity of training is determined and who pays for and benefits from it has been available for more than a third of a century (Becker 1962). However, the absence of data on the key theoretical constructs of the theory--general training, specific training, informal training and productivity growth--means that the only predictions of the theory that …
Understanding Behaviour To Inform Water Supply Management In Developed Nations - A Review Of Literature, Conceptual Model And Research Agenda, Anna Hurlimann, Sara Dolnicar, Petra Meyer
Understanding Behaviour To Inform Water Supply Management In Developed Nations - A Review Of Literature, Conceptual Model And Research Agenda, Anna Hurlimann, Sara Dolnicar, Petra Meyer
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Water is a scarce resource in many parts of the developed world. Two solutions are possible to address water scarcity: conservation of existing resources, or the further production of water from new sources e.g. through recycling of wastewater or desalination of seawater. However, the main hurdle to implementation of many of these solutions is often viewed as a lack of public willingness to adopt these alternative water behaviours. Research in this area is therefore crucial. Yet, and possibly due to the interdisciplinary nature of such research, there is currently no comprehensive overview of what has been done before. This study …
Travel And Recreation: Outlook 2010 Concious Consumption, Norma P. Nickerson
Travel And Recreation: Outlook 2010 Concious Consumption, Norma P. Nickerson
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications
Outlooks and Trends in 2010, Review of 2009.
Tourism Outlook: 2010, Norma P. Nickerson, Kara Grau
Tourism Outlook: 2010, Norma P. Nickerson, Kara Grau
Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications
Outlook for 2010