Learning and Development

A collection spanning topics such as competencies, learning intervention and CPD, as well as employee development, and mentoring and coaching.

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Featured names in the collection include editors Professor Thomas Garavan at University of Limerick (Ireland) and Professor Tauno Kekale at University of Vaasa (Finland) and contributing author Professor Jonathan Winterton, Director of Research at Groupe ESC Toulouse (France).

Maintaining long-standing relationships with leading conferences in the field, Emerald sponsors the Best Paper Awards at the annual Human Resource Development (HRD) and the biennial Research in Work and Learning.

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Testimonials

"Thank you for the effort you have put in keeping the journal lively and addressing current issues in training and management development."

– Professor Augustine Okanlawon, TMDM EAB member, Isle of Man International Business School.

"When I was a visiting professor in Australia, I developed several HRD units and used the Emerald resources for the content of many of the key units. I found Emerald to a reliable and critical source of articles. I recommend it highly."

– R. Wayne Pace, Ph.D. Founding President, Academy of Human Resource Development and Professor Emeritus, Organizational Leadership and HRD.

New and notable

JWL and RWL6

The Journal of Workplace Learning was delighted to repeat its sponsorship the conference Best Paper Awards at this year’s Researching Work and Learning Conference (RWL 6), held at Roskilde University, Denmark. A special issue of papers from the conference will be published in the 2010 volume and this will be edited by Professor Henning Salling Olesen of Roskilde University.

eLearning Africa 2009

In 2010 Emerald will be a proud conference sponsor of eLearning Africa 2009. This will be the fifth in the highly successful series of pan-African gatherings, will take place in Zambia. From May 26 – 28, 2010, the Continent’s largest annual assembly of eLearning and education professionals from Africa and beyond will convene in the capital, Lusaka. eLA is the largest gathering of eLearning and distance education professionals in Africa, and enables participants to develop multinational and cross-industry contacts and partnerships

JEIT at the HRD Conference 2009, Newcastle

Whilst attending the 10th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe, Publisher Nancy Rolph and Editor Tom Garavan recently presented the Emerald Outstanding Paper Award to Robert G. Hamlin, who accepted on behalf of his co-authors Andrea D. Ellinger and Rona S. Beattie, for their paper “Behavioural indicators of ineffective managerial coaching: A cross-national study”, published in volume 32 number 4, 2008 of the Journal of European Industrial Training.
They also presented a Highly Commended Paper Award to David Simmonds, who accepted on behalf of himself and his co-author Rebecca Gibson, for their paper “A model for outsourcing HRD”, published in volume 32 number 1, 2008 of the Journal of European Industrial Training.

Collection highlights

Featured Journal

Industrial and Commercial Training
Industrial and Commercial Training provides all those involved in personnel training, training management with current practice, ideas, news and research on major issues in organization development and employee education and training. ICT is a practical training journal showing busy training professionals how to put training theory into practice. Industrial & Commercial Training provides all those involved in personnel training with current practice, ideas, news, etc. on major issues in the related areas. The journal aims to provide a balance between theory and practice and publishes articles in the areas of action learning-principles and practice, applications of new technology, careers management, computer-based training and interactive video and learning styles.

Sample articles

Training strategies for an aging workforce
Sergio Koc-Menard (Vol 41, no 6, 2009, pp. 334-338)

Community updates

Current Invitation to Authors:

Journal of European Industrial Training

The Journal of European Industrial Training aims to provide all those involved in research and practice in training with ideas, news, research findings, case examples and discussion on HRD. Although the journal focuses primarily on activity in Europe, it also draws on insights from global examples of training requirements unique to the industrial sector. The journal now invites submissions from those working in the following areas:

Globalisation and HRD
Blended learning and e-Learning
Talent Management and HRD
Call centres, contact centres and service centres
Corporate strategy, culture and HRD
The European labour market
Management education innovations
Regional insight into small firm's training initiatives
European approaches to HRD
Employee engagement in HRD

The Journal of European Industrial Training is the only publication which has the information training professionals are looking for, complete with the models they need and all the appropriate references. JEIT features the thoughts and research of academics and practitioners who are leading the revolution in workplace education, making it easy to compare your theories with those of other professionals in the field.

Previously unpublished papers, of between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, should be submitted to Associate Editor, Ronan Carbery, on e-mail Ronan.Carbery@ul.ie

Please submit papers in accordance with the journal’s submission guidelines: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jeit

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