Stimulating the innovation potential of ‘routine’ workers through workplace learning

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 243-258

  Evans, Karen ^a   Waite, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult learning; employee development; formal informal learning; innovative practice; literacy; routine work; skills utilization; work environments; workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997941799     PISSN: 10242589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1024258910364313     Document Type: Article

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