Motorola adapts training to modern business demands - 2002

This review is based upon "The corporate university model for continuos learnin, training and development" by El-Tannir (2002) and "Corporate universities versus higher-education institutions" by Nixon and Helms (2002). The El-Tannir article provides plenty to interest senior human-resource and training specialists in large organizations, which have a corporate university and seek to tie learning more directly to company objectives, or companies contemplating the establishement of a corporate university for the first time. The article presents the corporate-university model as being suitable for continuous learing in the modern business world. The Nixon and Helms article outlines the reasons for the rapit growth of corporate universities and the implications and challenges for corporation and traditional universities. The article proves praricularly valuable for senior academic in traditional universities seeking to partner corporate universities or find other ways of countering the corporate-university "threat"


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