Post-initial training : a study of some meanings of training in selected U.K. companies
Post-initial training : a study of some meanings of training in selected U.K. companies
The aim of the study is to discover the values which are placed upon various functions of training and how training is given meaning. The intention is to determine how training is discursively constructed through what is said and what is done. This study draws on published material concerned with post-initial, company-based training; public written texts produced by the case study companies and interviews with key personnel.
The work is divided into three main sections. The first is a commentary on the methodology. This focuses on establishing the area of research and the nature of the interview. Second is a study of written texts from selected companies. The idea is to illuminate the 'public face' of the companies in order to come closer to 'company truths'. This is followed by a consideration of the implications for training of quality issues.
The final section is concerned with the polytextuality of training. The four themes foregrounded centre on the 'company'; communicating; the 'individual', and the 'visibility' of training. In order to do this interviews have been drawn on conducted with personnel from the case study companies. The notion of training as textual practice, is central to this section. Acknowledgement of the self as a research tool and the consequent reflexivity is recognised as a necessary element to this study.
University of Southampton
1998
Brown, Patricia Valerie
(1998)
Post-initial training : a study of some meanings of training in selected U.K. companies.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The aim of the study is to discover the values which are placed upon various functions of training and how training is given meaning. The intention is to determine how training is discursively constructed through what is said and what is done. This study draws on published material concerned with post-initial, company-based training; public written texts produced by the case study companies and interviews with key personnel.
The work is divided into three main sections. The first is a commentary on the methodology. This focuses on establishing the area of research and the nature of the interview. Second is a study of written texts from selected companies. The idea is to illuminate the 'public face' of the companies in order to come closer to 'company truths'. This is followed by a consideration of the implications for training of quality issues.
The final section is concerned with the polytextuality of training. The four themes foregrounded centre on the 'company'; communicating; the 'individual', and the 'visibility' of training. In order to do this interviews have been drawn on conducted with personnel from the case study companies. The notion of training as textual practice, is central to this section. Acknowledgement of the self as a research tool and the consequent reflexivity is recognised as a necessary element to this study.
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Published date: 1998
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Patricia Valerie Brown
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