Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources

Scholars have long discussed the value of human resource management (HRM) led professional learning and development in nurturing human capital for increased competitive advantage. Recently, this has become challenging due to the emergence of increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (V…

Although research has identified many of the competences that human resource management (HRM) professionals need, limited research examines how competence expectations can be met in HRM courses. This study sought to generate the knowledge required to align HRM courses with competence statements in t…

This paper analyses a unique data set to examine the determinants of the explicit reasons employers give for training employees in Australia. The nature of the data requires the use of multinomial logit methods to uncover how certain strategic, recruitment and organizational variables impact on the …

The significant link between learning and the knowledge economy is so crucial that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has reconceptualised the term knowledge-economy to call it the 'learning economy'. One of the main challenges of human resource development in the 'learning e…

This study examined the current trade shortage in Australian industry from the perspective of fewer young people entering the trades. We investigated the extent to which certain variables (relationship with their boss/supervisor; relationship with their co-workers; extrinsic motivation within the co…

Data from quantitative and qualitative sources were gathered from enterprises in five industry sectors (construction, manufacturing, services, transport and other) using targeted interviews, focus groups, a mailed questionnaire survey (N = 81) and a telephone interview survey (N = 69) to ascertain t…

Major concerns have been raised about the training reforms currently being implemented by the Australian government. This article draws on a survey of users of the national training system in Australia to outline the problems that have emerged and to recommend changes to existing implementation arra…

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