Organisational Restructuring and Downsizing: Issues Related to Learning, Training and Employability of Survivors

Autor/inn/en	Carbery, Ronan; Garavan, Thomas N.
Titel	Organisational Restructuring and Downsizing: Issues Related to Learning, Training and Employability of Survivors
Quelle	In: Journal of European Industrial Training, 29 (2005) 6, S.488-508 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-0590
DOI	10.1108/03090590510610272
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Employees; Learning Processes; Personnel Data; Job Skills; Competence; Attitude Change; Employment Qualifications; Learning Motivation; Job Training; Responsibility; Employee Attitudes; Workplace Learning; Manufacturing Industry; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Learning process; Lernprozess; Personaldaten; Produktive Fertigkeit; Kompetenz; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Fertigungswirtschaft; Produzierendes Gewerbe; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Irland
Abstract	Purpose: This article sets out to look at how employees who have survived an organisational downsizing and restructuring process adjust to meet the dynamics of the organisation, develop new skills and competencies, and the extent to which they take on new roles in the organisation. Design/methodology/approach: Collects accounts from managers, focusing on exploring the skills and competencies that survivors had to develop, and the attitudes they had to embrace in respect of learning and employment. Explores issues relating to the employability of professional employees and their motivation to learning and willingness to participate in learning that was more tacit and non-formal in nature. Findings: Provides information in respect of learning processes and responsibilities. Highlights the onus on individuals to take responsibility for their own learning needs and initiate training and development needs. Suggests that self-development skills were of particular importance in making the transition. Research limitations/implications: Generalisabilty of the findings is rendered difficult due to the small sample size and lack of access to archival organisational material. Originality/value: Addresses a gap in the extant literature on the skill and competency issues that arise from strategic and structural transformation and change, in particular from the perspective of managerial and professional employees. Identifies the risks involved in making individuals responsible for their own learning. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10