Learning and High Performance Working

There is mounting evidence of the importance of links between learning and work organisation.
A review of research on workplace learning carried out for the IFTDO in 1999 suggested that in organisations in which decision-making is being devolved and team-working is becoming self-managing, learning needs are more frequently defined by learners and less by trainers.

In such organisations, trainers have a new role as facilitators. They are becoming experts on organisational and individual learning and not just teachers.

These fundamental changes are already affecting the way training and related practitioners work. Understanding the direction of the changes and their implications for professional practice is important and it was this in mind that the IFTDO formed an alliance with the International Labour Organisation to research high performance working and the connection to training and development. The research has resulted in a series of case studies drawn from six countries around the world and an overview that brings together the themes in the case studies.

These materials are now available on the ILO web site. Contact by http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/workplace