Finding reemployment after job loss is a complex and difficult task that requires extensive motivation and self-regulation. This study aimed to examine whether improving unemployed job seekers’ cognitive selfregulation can increase reemployment probabilities. Based on the goal orientation literature, we developed a learning-goal orientation (LGO) training, which focused on goal setting aimed at...

the successful adoption of e-learning systems is mainly dependent on the learners’ attitude and willingness to use them. this survey was conducted to investigate agricultural extension workers’ attitudes toward using e-learning for on-the-job training in iran and factors which affect it. using the stratified sampling technique a sample of 379 extension workers were selected from six provinces. ...

AIM Job stress is a part of nurses' professional life that causes the decrease of the nurses' job satisfaction and quality of work life. This study aimed to determine the effect of positive thinking via social media applications on the nurses' quality of work life. METHODS This was a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design with a control group. The samples were selected among the nur...

Need for this paper arises for studying and analyzing the system of training need identification and actual training programme that are conducted for the teachers of higher professional education. We all must be aware that the world surrounding us is changing at a very fast pace which makes it necessary for us to keep our self updated with it.. Need for training arises not because we start losi...

For a long time on-the-job training has been considered as the single point of contact of technical education with the real world job market. Indeed, traditional on-the-job training activities are of great educational value and complement uniquely any classroom-based learning activity. However, it has been observed that several obstacles arise when integrating on-the-job training with tradition...

AIM AND BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of web-based assertion training programmes for Japanese hospital nurses based on their assertion knowledge, attitude and behaviour, job stress and depression. Job stress has been reported to be high among Japanese hospital nurses, and it is thought that assertion, one type of communication skill, could help nurses to better...

AIMS It is common in the context of evaluations that participants have not been selected on the basis of transparent participation criteria, and researchers and evaluators many times have to make do with observational data to estimate effects of job training programs and similar interventions. The techniques developed by researchers in such endeavours are useful not only to researchers narrowly...

Although marine fishing is one of the most hazardous occupations, research on the occupational safety and health (OSH) conditions aboard marine fishing vessels is scarce. For instance, little is known about the working conditions of vulnerable groups such as young and aging fishermen. The objective of the current paper is to study the OSH conditions of young and aging fishermen compared to midd...

Skill Policies for Scotland This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that early disadvantages produce severe later disadvantages that are hard to rem...

This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms that do not provide train...