Learning in the workplace: training patterns and training activities

The workplace provides a central focus for many of the activities related to the knowledge-based economy. In this chapter, the authors briefly summarise the evidence on patterns of employer-sponsored training in Canada, describing patterns and highlighting where training investments are relatively large and where there appear to be disincentives to training investment. Disincentives are organised into externalities, information barriers, employee-based obstacles and a miscellaneous group. In each case, the theoretical arguments are discussed, and then the relevant Canadian empirical evidence is reviewed. The following section introduces a new empirical analysis of training obstacles reported by Canadian organisations, focusing on the part of the survey that questioned employers on the extent to which a number of potential obstacles to training were problems in their organisation. The final section presents the authors conclusions.

The full publication is indexed at TD/TNC 64.273, and selected chapters are indexed from TD/TNC 64.274 to TD/TNC 64.286. Show less