Technological learning environments and organizational practices – cross-sectoral evidence from Britain

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Freitas, I.M.B. (2012), "Technological learning environments and organizational practices – cross-sectoral evidence from Britain", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 26 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo.2012.08126baa.004

Technological learning environments and organizational practices – cross-sectoral evidence from Britain

Article Type: Abstracts From: Development and Learning in Organizations, Volume 26, Issue 2

FreitasI .M.B.Industrial & Corporate Change, October 2011, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 1439-1474, No. of pages: 36

This study explores the co-occurrence of technological and organizational learning processes by analyzing the adoption and use of four types of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices, rewarding, problem-solving, top-down management, and decentralization, in the 1990s, across different technological learning environments. Using a sample of British workplaces, we show that the level of use of diverse HRM practices, aimed at creating different learning incentives, is persistently heterogeneous across technological learning environments, suggesting that HRM forms an essential part of the technological learning structure of firms.Article type: Research paperISSN: 0960-6491Reference: 40AS712

Keywords: Decentralization, Human resource management, Organizational learning, Problem solving, Rewards, United Kingdom