Industrial or vocational training

In order to survive and attain market leadership, organizations must engage in longer-term strategic quality activities to address radical, paradigm-shifting improvements that affect the organization and its competitive position.

Keep your existing customers happy, loyal .

Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.

Everyone is required to make decisions and solve problems in their business and personal lives.

Leading business schools routinely offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in operations and supply chain management.

Successful Recruitment provides the practical guidance and knowledge needed to recruit the right people, avoiding the many pitfalls that can arise in the recruitment process.

The Barn Door Is Open: Frameworks and Tools for Success and Fulfillment in the Workplace is a business book, a playful and humorous read, an intelligent metaphorical and philosophical tale anchored in the tools and techniques of innovative and proven management frameworks.

This book discusses the scientific developments on the new roles of interventions in career-and-life design (career education, career counseling, etc.

This book examines quality teaching in professional education in the fields of engineering and international knowledge structures.

This book analyses examples of quality teaching in professional education in the human client fields.

This book explores the history, purpose and understandings of College Based Higher Education.

This book examines the benefits of applying the Identity Structure Analysis (ISA) to teacher professional development.

This book presents the fundamental concepts of organizational learning (OL) and related topics.

This book describes the steps undertaken by language researchers to disseminate their findings at sites of practice.

This book analyses how narrative fictions can be used by faculty and staff in the teaching of professionals in higher education.

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Bangkok.

This book examines how educational practice can be improved through practice-focused educational research.

This book addresses the nature of professional learning, paramedic skill development, practice assessment, and feedback from both clinical and educational theory perspectives.

This edited book focuses on current practices, challenges and innovations in the emerging field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

This book explores and progresses the concept of negotiation as a means of describing and explaining individuals' learning in work.

This book advances the theory of action research, analyzing how it can be used to develop autonomy among language teachers.

This book provides a careful and comprehensive, step-by-step method for providing clinical ethics consultation.

This book explores early new critical debates about intention, tracing how and why intention was dismissed across much humanities scholarship, and how it can be revisited and made relevant as a key formative, evaluative, and ethical concept.

This book focuses on large and small group educational settings and offers brief strategies to engage learners to assure active learning strategies are core to the learning environment.

This book draws together various theoretical and research-based perspectives to examine the institutionalization of mentoring processes for beginning teachers.

This book invites readers to explore how fourteen different experts in their respective fields create deeper meaning in their profession and work with students through thinking, in multiple ways, about the self who teaches, the self who learns, and the ways in which these selves interact within the academy.

This book brings home the message that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions.

This second volume of Diverse Pedagogical Approaches to Experiential Learning (Palgrave, 2020) contains a new collection of experiential learning (EL) reflections, case studies, and strategies written by twenty-eight authors across sixteen academic disciplines.

This book focuses on a renewed interest in work based learning in higher education.

This edited volume builds upon the premise that online learning is not separate from the social and material world, and is made up of embodied, socially-meaningful experiences.

This book explores the concept of the "e;best-loved self"e; in teaching and teacher education, asserting that the best-loved self is foundational to the development of teacher identity, growth in context, and learning in community.

This book explores the perception, construction and performance of professional identities in initial teacher education (ITE).

This book describes a participatory case study of a small family farm in Maharashtra, India.

This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET).

This volume provides alternatives for tackling existing empirical, methodological, and analytical challenges.

Education needs new ways to prepare individuals and societies for the multitude of changing challenges in the twenty-first century.

This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of empirical studies based on various approaches devoted to examining the interpersonal argumentative processes involved in different contexts.

Examining perceptions of leaders which are dependent on social and cultural contexts, this edited collection argues that in order to thrive and to understand the future business landscape, leaders must be inclusive and create followership.

The present book collects, integrates, and discusses the range of perspectives and discourses on agency at work.

This volume focuses on resilience in educational contexts which has emerged as an important field of research, with recent investigation into resilience of school students teachers, and post-secondary students and staff.

Drawing upon data from an Australian study, this book gives voice to beginning teachers navigating their way through their first year of teaching and discovering what it means to be professional learners.

This edited book addresses a range of aspects of internationalization in vocational education and training (VET) in different countries.

This book analyses the accessibility and success of vocational training programmes for unemployed and disadvantaged youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The editors and authors of this textbook introduce the relatively new subject of "e;academic and educational entrepreneurship"e; from a holistic viewpoint.

This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century.

The central assumption that guides this book is that research and practice about learning at the workplace has recently lost its critical edge.

This book explores the community of practice at New York City College of Technology engaged in interdisciplinary team teaching.

This book examines the impact of internationalization, student mobility and transnational workforce mobility on the changing nature of teacher work and teacher professional learning in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.