All Outputs (15)

Viewpoint: Linking training policy and practice to organizational goals (1997)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, D., & Garavan, T. N. (1997). Viewpoint: Linking training policy and practice to organizational goals. Journal of European industrial training, 21(9), 301-309. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090599710189144

Argues that a human resource development (HRD) strategy, in alliance with a global‐arching human resource management (HRM) strategy, is the most effective way to link training policy and practice to organizational goals. Both manufacturing and servi... Read More about Viewpoint: Linking training policy and practice to organizational goals.

Training, development, education and learning: different or the same? (1997)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N. (1997). Training, development, education and learning: different or the same?. Journal of European industrial training, 21(2), 39-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090599710161711

Attempts to discuss the concepts of training, development, education and learning with regard to employees in terms of their substantive differences. Discusses how these concepts have evolved historically within human resource management and develop... Read More about Training, development, education and learning: different or the same?.

Interpersonal skills training for quality service interactions (1997)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N. (1997). Interpersonal skills training for quality service interactions. Industrial and Commercial Training, 29(3), 70-77. https://doi.org/10.1108/00197859710165056

Achieving improvements in customer service is now recognized as a major challenge facing manufacturing and service industries throughout the world. This challenge is particularly pertinent to the tourism and hospitality sector. Notions of quality in... Read More about Interpersonal skills training for quality service interactions.

The information age: implications for education and training in a small economy (1997)
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Garrihy, D., & Garavan, T. N. (1997). The information age: implications for education and training in a small economy. Industrial and Commercial Training, 29(7), 208-217. https://doi.org/10.1108/00197859710190724

Information technology presents considerable challenges and opportunities to society. Ireland, as a member of the European Union with a small, open economy which is highly influenced by international trends, has a particular interest in this new phe... Read More about The information age: implications for education and training in a small economy.

Entrepreneurship in the small hotel sector (1997)
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Glancey, K., & Pettigrew, M. (1997). Entrepreneurship in the small hotel sector. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 9(1), 21-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/09596119710157540

Reports the findings from a study of entrepreneurial activity in the small hotel sector in a Scottish town, St Andrews. Applies bodies of theory on the small entrepreneurial firm, developed for other sectors of the economy, to an examination of smal... Read More about Entrepreneurship in the small hotel sector.

Compterised accounting in Silicon Glen. (1997)
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Steven, G. (1996). Compterised accounting in Silicon Glen. Account : magazine voor accountants, belastingadviseurs, advocaten, notarissen en andere financiële dienstverleners, 9, ISSN 0924-4182

An investigation into the relationships between area social characteristics and road accident casualties (1997)
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Abdalla, I. M., Raeside, R., Barker, D., & McGuigan, D. R. (1997). An investigation into the relationships between area social characteristics and road accident casualties. Accident analysis and prevention, 29(5), 583-593. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-4575%2897%2900011-0

This paper reports on the analysis of a data base created by merging road casualty information and census data for the former Lothian region in Scotland. The data base was established by assigning resident postcodes to each casualty record and relati... Read More about An investigation into the relationships between area social characteristics and road accident casualties.

Graduate assessment centres: an empirical investigation of effectiveness (1997)
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Garavan, T. N., & Morley, M. (1997). Graduate assessment centres: an empirical investigation of effectiveness. Career Development International, 2(4), 160-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/13620439710173652

Presents a review of assessment‐centre practice and evaluates its overall effectiveness as a method of selection. There is a specific evaluation of an assessment centre in the banking industry for the selection of graduates. The results do not in ge... Read More about Graduate assessment centres: an empirical investigation of effectiveness.

New perspectives on skill, learning and training: a viewpoint (1997)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, D., & Garavan, T. N. (1997). New perspectives on skill, learning and training: a viewpoint. Journal of European industrial training, 21(4), 131-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004329

Proposes an integrated germ cell model of development based firmly on a cognitive, as distinct from behaviourist, view of learning and on the psychological theory of activity. Uses this to explore how an umbrella concept of skill allied to a learnin... Read More about New perspectives on skill, learning and training: a viewpoint.

Local enterprise companies and rural development (1997)
Journal Article
McQuaid, R. W., & McQuaid, R. W. (1997). Local enterprise companies and rural development. Journal of Rural Studies, 13(2), 197-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0743-0167%2897%2983096-3

This paper discusses the rural dimensions of the objectives and activities of Local Enterprise Companies (LECs). These form a network of local economic development agencies that operate as part of regional policy under the umbrella of the ‘regional’... Read More about Local enterprise companies and rural development.

The socialization of high‐potential graduates into the organization: Initial expectations, experiences and outcomes (1997)
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Garavan, T. N., & Morley, M. (1997). The socialization of high‐potential graduates into the organization: Initial expectations, experiences and outcomes. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 12(2), 118-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683949710164208

Examines the expectations of those graduates recruited by organizations for their “high‐flyer” programmes. Looks at the socialization process that such graduates are exposed to once recruited and evaluates the adjustment and change processes that gr... Read More about The socialization of high‐potential graduates into the organization: Initial expectations, experiences and outcomes.

The learning organization: a review and evaluation (1997)
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Garavan, T. (1997). The learning organization: a review and evaluation. Learning Organization, The, 4(1), 18-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/09696479710156442

Undertakes a critical review of the confused and confusing literature on the learning organization. Draws on both psychological and organizational perspectives, and focuses on the distinction between organizational learning and the concept of the le... Read More about The learning organization: a review and evaluation.

360 degree feedback: its role in employee development (1997)
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Garavan, T. N., Morley, M., & Flynn, M. (1997). 360 degree feedback: its role in employee development. Journal of Management Development, 16(2), 134-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621719710164300

Focuses on 360 degree feedback which is defined as a contrived method of providing a flow of feedback to employees from all directions. Addresses the purposes of feedback within the organization, with special emphasis on its use for employee develop... Read More about 360 degree feedback: its role in employee development.

The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985 (1997)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (1997). The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 44(1), 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9485.00045

This paper uses a stochastic frontier production function approach to measure technical efficiency in firms in Northern Ireland. Firm level census of production panel data were used to examine how efficiency in firms changed over the period 1973–1985... Read More about The Evolution of Technical Efficiency in the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sector, 1973-1985.

Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh (1997)
Journal Article
Khan, H., & Raeside, R. (1997). Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh. Social science & medicine, 44(3), 279-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536%2896%2900076-7

This paper reports on a study which has been undertaken using data from the 1989 Bangladesh Fertility Survey (BFS) to determine the significance of influences on the probability of birth in the year preceding the survey. In the survey a total of 11 9... Read More about Factors affecting the most recent fertility rates in urban-rural Bangladesh.