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Putting Learning in Collective Hands: A New Democracy?
This article looks at the democratisation of learning and the importance of this in an era of technological advances and high-speed innovation and change. Collaborative learning, where two or more people learn together to share knowledge and good practice can help spark innovation, break down silos and boundaries and open up the process of both… Read More
Beware the Impact of Pay Injustice
This article examines three studies of how pay justice can affect employee behaviour. As the authors point out, previous research investigating justice has established four types of reward-related justice, namely: The fairness of the actual rewards given to an individual, known as ‘distributive justice’; Procedures used to determine reward decisions, known as ‘procedural justice’; The… Read More
Losing Knowledge: The Trouble with Turnover
‘Organisational forgetting’ is a new concept in academic HRD research. The authors have tested this emerging idea that the knowledge base of an organisation ‘depreciates’ when people leave. Turnover-induced forgetting is the idea that the knowledge base of an organisation “depreciates” when people leave. Most of the research in this fascinating area has related to… Read More
Research: Calcium Intake & Mortality
Research Paper Title: Long Term Calcium Intake and Rates of All Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality: Community Based Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study. Study Question: What is the association of long term intake of dietary and supplemental calcium with mortality from all causes and cardiovascualr disease? Summary Answer: High intakes of calcium (>1400 mg/day) are associated with… Read More
Editorial: ACL Injuries & Active Adults
Editorial Title: Treating ACL Injuries in Young Moderately Active Adults. Article: Currently, the clinical indication for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction takes into account both patient related and knee related factors. In an effort to better identify these factors, Frobell and colleauges performed a randomized clinical trial comparing two treatment strategies for young moderately active… Read More
