Partnership Approaches to Learning: A Seven-country Study
Author(s) -
Mark Stuart,
Emma Wallis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
european journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.251
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1461-7129
pISSN - 0959-6801
DOI - 10.1177/0959680107081743
Subject(s) - general partnership , restructuring , work (physics) , public relations , focus (optics) , trade union , business , political science , economic growth , economics , international trade , engineering , finance , mechanical engineering , physics , optics
■ This article explores the role of trade unions in innovativelearning partnerships. Formal framework partnerships suffer from implementationproblems and a lack of focus on worker needs, in contrast to local learningpartnerships that address the specific interests of workers displaced throughrestructuring. The key challenges facing unions are the types of skillsaddressed, coordination issues across learning partnerships and building theunion skills needed to work in partnership
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