Open Access‘The Corporate University’ Training And Learning
Author(s) -
K. Pillay,
Danie Wijnbeek
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
sa journal of human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2071-078X
pISSN - 1683-7584
DOI - 10.4102/sajhrm.v4i2.93
Subject(s) - training (meteorology) , business , qualitative research , participant observation , marketing , corporate education , training and development , public relations , management , knowledge management , sociology , political science , pedagogy , computer science , adult education , economics , social science , physics , meteorology , anthropology
The training and development of employees in the airline industry usually take place within a decentralized structure and may result in fragmented and costly initiatives. To improve the current practice a corporate university (CU) model to be implemented in the airline is proposed. For the purpose of the study qualitative interviews were held, human documents were studied and participant observation and the views of employees of the South African airline industry were sought regarding training in general and CUs in particular. The study revealed support for the CU concept because it would encourage continuous learning at all levels in the organisation and would place emphasis on both employee and organisational needs