Employee involvement, the quality of training and the learning environment: an individual level analysis

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Felstead, A. (2011), "Employee involvement, the quality of training and the learning environment: an individual level analysis", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 25 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo.2011.08125cad.008

Employee involvement, the quality of training and the learning environment: an individual level analysis

Article Type: Abstracts From: Development and Learning in Organizations, Volume 25, Issue 3

Felstead A., , Gallie D., , Green F. and , Zhou Y. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2010, Vol. 21 No. 10, Start page: 1667, No. of pages: 22

Theories such as human capital theory, the metaphors of learning and the high-involvement work paradigm all suggest that the quality of training and learning varies along a number of axes. This article shows how these theoretical insights have been translated into questions used in a UK survey of 6,829 employees carried out in 2006. We find that the qualities of both the training experience and on-the-job learning are strongly associated with the extent and nature of employee involvement. This suggests that employee involvement is likely to play an important role in the process of upskilling the workforce, which has been accorded a central role in the economic strategies of many nation states as well as supra-national organizations such as the European Union. Article type: Research paper ISSN: 0958-5192 Reference: 40AA147

Keywords: Employee involvement, Learning, Skills, Training, Work organization