Article: Continuing Education

Motives for participation in continuing education are varied, while its effects depend on the use of knowledge obtained. The main motive at the company level is to increase the productivity of employees and the competitiveness and business performance of a company. At the individual level, motives may be related to promotion and consequently higher pay, improved employment prospects, leisure time activities, active citizenship, etc. To what extent an individual will actually use the obtained skills largely depends on how successfully he or she identified the demand for new skills and how appropriately he or she selected the education programme. The effects of participation in continuing ...

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