Canadian accountants: Examining workplace learning

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 61-77

  Hicks, Elizabeth ^a   Bagg, Robert ^a   Doyle, Wendy ^a   Young, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accountants; Canada; Learning methods; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847095922     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620710728457     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Anderson, V. and Boocock, G. (2002), “Small firms and internationalization: learning to manage and managing to learn”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 5-24.
2. Bassi, L., Cheney, S. and Lewis, E. (1998), “Trends in workplace learning: supply and demand in interesting times”, Training and Development, Vol. 52 No. 11, pp. 51-75.
3. Billett, S. (1995), “Workplace learning: its potential and limitations”, Education+Training, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 20-7.
4. Bratton, J.A. (2001), “Why workers are reluctant learners: the case of the Canadian pulp and paper industry”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 13 Nos 7 / 8, pp. 333-43.
5. Chen, A.S., Bian, M. and Hom, Y. (2005), “Taiwan HRD practitioner competencies: an application of the ASTD WLP competency model”, International Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 21-32.
6. Cofer, D.A. Jr (2000), Informal Learning in the Workplace: A Brief Review of Practice and Application, Report (CE 080 194), College of Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (ERIC Document Reproduction Service (ED441160)).
7. Coyle, H.E. and Ellinger, A.D. (2001), “Learning beliefs and strategies of female entrepreneurs: the importance of relational context in informal and incidental learning”, Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development, Oklahoma, pp. 27-33.
8. Cseh, M. (1999), “Contextual learning of owners-managers of small, successful Romanian companies”, Academy of Human Resource Development Conference Proceedings, pp. 927-33.
9. Daley, B.J. (1999), “Novice to expert: an exploration of how professionals learn”, Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 49 No. 4, pp. 133-47.
10. Darwin, A. (2000), “Critical reflections on mentoring in work settings”, Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 50 No. 3, pp. 197-211.
11. Davies, J. and Easterby-Smith, M. (1984), “Learning and developing from managerial work experiences”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 169-83.
12. Day, N. (1998), “Informal learning”, Workforce, Vol. 77 No. 6, June, pp. 30-36.
13. Döös, M., Wilhelmson, L., Backlund, T. and Dixon, N. (2005), “Functioning at the edge of knowledge: a study of learning processes in new product development”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 17 Nos 7 / 8, pp. 481-92.
14. Doyle, W. and Young, J. (1999), “Entrepreneurs, experience, and management development: considering a role for reflection”, paper presented at Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Banff.
15. Doyle, W. and Young, J. (2001), “Entrepreneurial networks in the micro-business sector: examining differences across gender and business stage”, Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 40-55.
16. Doyle, W. and Young, J. (2003a), “Small business owners/managers' informal workplace learning: preliminary findings”, Proceedings of the Small Business Institute Directors' National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 34-44.
17. Doyle, W. and Young, J. (2003b), “Small business owners: barriers to and facilitators of their workplace learning”, Proceedings of the Canadian Council on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Victoria, BC.
18. Doyle, W. and Young, J. (2004), “E-learning and small business: a Nova Scotia perspective”, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, Halifax, NS.
19. Dreyfus, H.L. and Dreyfus, S.E. (1986), Mind over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer, The Free Press, New York, NY.
20. Eddy, E.R., D'Abate, C.P., Tannenbaum, S.I., Givens-Skeaton, S. and Robinson, G. (2006), “Key characteristics of effective and ineffective developmental interactions”, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 59-84.
21. Eraut, M. (2004), “Informal learning in the workplace”, Studies in Continuing Education, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 247-73.
22. Eraut, M., Maillardet, F., Miller, C., Steadman, S., Ali, A., Blackman, C. and Furner, J. (2003), “Learning in the first professional job: the first year of full time employment after college for accountants, engineers and nurses”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
23. Fenwick, T. (2003), “Innovation: examining workplace learning in new enterprises”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 123-32.
24. Fenwick, T. and Hutton, S. (2000), “Women crafting new work: the learning of women entrepreneurs”, Proceedings of the 41st Adult Education Research Conference, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 111-17.
25. Ferry, N.M. and Ross-Gordon, J.M. (1998), “An inquiry into Schön's epistemology of practice: exploring links between experience and reflective practice”, Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 48 No. 2, pp. 98-112.
26. Garrick, J. (1998), “Informal learning in corporate workplaces”, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 129-44.
27. Goodridge, E. and McGee, M.K. (2002), “IT's generation gap”, Information Week, No. 905, September 9, pp. 47-9.
28. Hara, N. (2001), “Formal and informal learning: incorporating communities of practice into professional development”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA, April.
29. Ibrahim, A.B. and Soufani, K. (2002), “Entrepreneurship education and training in Canada: a critical assessment”, Education + Training, Vol. 44 Nos 8 / 9, pp. 421-30.
30. Kleiner, A. and Roth, G. (1997), “How to make experience your company's best teacher”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 75 No. 5, September-October, pp. 172-7.
31. Lans, T., Wesselink, R., Biemans, H.J.A. and Mulder, M. (2004), “Work-related lifelong learning for entrepreneurs in the agri-food sector”, International Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 72-88.
32. Livingstone, D.W. (2001), “Worker control as the missing link: relations between paid/unpaid work and work-related learning”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 13 Nos 7 / 8, pp. 308-17.
33. Livingstone, D.W. and Sawchuk, P.H. (2005), “Hidden knowledge: working-class capacity in the ‘knowledge-based economy’”, Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol. 37 No. 2, pp. 110-22.
34. Lohman, M.C. (2000), “Environmental inhibitors to informal learning in the workplace: a case study of public school teachers”, Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 52 No. 2, pp. 83-101.
35. Lohman, M.C., Wang, P. and Woolf, N.H. (1996), “A case study of informal learning in the workplace”, Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 605-7.
36. McCracken, M. (2005), “Towards a typology of barriers to learning”, Journal of Management Development, Vol. 24 No. 6, pp. 559-75.
37. Macneil, C. (2001), “The supervisor as a facilitator of informal learning in work teams”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 13 No. 6, pp. 246-53.
38. Marsick, V.J. and Watkins, K.E. (2001), “Informal and incidental learning”, New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, No. 89, Spring, pp. 25-34.
39. Middlemiss, J. (2006), “Going global”, CAmagazine, Vol. 139 No. 5, pp. 26-33.
40. Miller, P. (2003), “Workplace learning by action learning: a practical example”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 14-23.
41. Morris, M.G., Venkatesh, V. and Ackerman, P.L. (2005), “Gender and age differences in employee decisions about new technology: an extension to the theory of planned behaviour”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 52 No. 1, p. 69.
42. Morton, P. (2006), “The new rock stars”, CAmagazine, Vol. 139 No. 8, pp. 24-32.
43. Munro, L., Holly, L. and Rainbird, H. (2000), “‘My ladies aren't interested in learning’: managers, supervisors and the social context of learning”, International Review of Education, Vol. 46 No. 6, pp. 515-28.
44. Murphy, H.J. and Young, J.D. (1995), “Management self-development and small business: exploring emergent issues”, Management Learning, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 319-30.
45. Penn, D.W., Abg'wa, W., Forster, R., Heydon, G. and Richardson, S.J. (1998), “Learning in smaller organizations”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 128-37.
46. Raffo, C., Lovatt, A., Banks, M. and O'Connor, J. (2000), “Teaching and learning entrepreneurship for micro and small businesses in the cultural industries sector”, Education + Training, Vol. 42 No. 6, pp. 356-64.
47. Reio, T.G. Jr and Wiswell, A. (2000), “Field investigation of the relationship among adult curiosity, workplace learning, and job performance”, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 5-30.
48. Rowden, R.W. (2002), “The relationship between workplace learning and job satisfaction in US small to midsize businesses”, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 407-25.
49. Rowden, R.W. and Ahmad, S. (1999), “The relationship between workplace learning and employee satisfaction in small businesses”, Proceedings of the Academy of Human Resource Development, USA, pp. 15-19.
50. Sawchuk, P.H. (2001), “Trade union-based workplace learning: a case study in workplace reorganization and worker knowledge production”, Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 13 Nos 7 / 8, pp. 344-51.
51. Sloman, M. and Webster, L. (2005), “Training to learning”, T+D, Vol. 59 No. 9, pp. 58-62.
52. Watkins, K.E. and Marsick, V.J. (1992), “Towards a theory of informal and incidental learning in organizations”, International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 287-300.
53. Wexley, K.N. and Baldwin, T.T. (1986), “Management development”, Journal of Management, Vol. 12 No. 2, 1986 Yearly Review of Management, pp. 277-94.
54. White, J.P., Armstrong, H., Armstrong, P., Bourgeault, I., Choiniere, J. and Mykhalovsky, E. (2000), “The impact of managed care on nurses' workplace learning and teaching”, Nursing Inquiry, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 74-80.
55. Yuthas, K., Dillard, J.F. and Rogers, R.K. (2004), “Beyond agency and structure: triple-loop learning”, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 51 No. 2, pp. 229-43.
56. Zemke, R. (1985), “The Honeywell studies: how managers learn to manage”, Training, Vol. 22 No. 8, pp. 46-51.