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In Search of Missing Links in Disseminating Good Practice – Experiences of a Work Reform Programme in Finland

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This article examines learning and good practice dissemination in the light of the evolution and experience of the Finnish Workplace Development Programme (TYKES), which has been running from 1996 in Finland, and will complete its third term in 2009. The emphasis will be on the new pro-ject concept used in the second term of the Programme, namely learning networks. The concept of “good practice” is critically examined, and some ideas, pointing out to a need to pay due attention to the quality and learn-ing spaces of “everyday small loops of learning”, in trying to bridge the “dissemination gap”, often identified in programme and project learning, are examined in the light of a feasibility study of a new TYKES-financed learning network project, PEERS, led by the author.

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  • Robert Arnkil, 2008. "In Search of Missing Links in Disseminating Good Practice – Experiences of a Work Reform Programme in Finland," International Journal of Action Research, Rainer Hampp Verlag, vol. 4(1+2), pages 39-61.
    • Handle: RePEc:rai:ijares:doi_10.1688/1861-9916_ijar_2008_01_arnkil
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    Keywords

    workplace development; work reform programmes; good practice dissemination;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence
    • P10 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - General

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