WORKPLACE LEARNING IN THAILAND: MOTIVATION AND BENEFITS IN AUTOMOTIVE PARTS AND HOTEL INDUSTRIES

Patcharawalai Wongboonsin

Workplace learning is a critical part of skill development along a lifelong learning process in Thailand. Based on a structured questionnaire delivered on line and by post, this study investigates the demographic background of the respondents in automotive parts and hotel industries there, their work status and workplace, and their perception regarding workplace learning, their experience and effects of working learning incurred to them.

The study finds the employees in both industries recognizing the contribution of workplace learning activities, particularly in terms of productivity and the equality of their outputs or performances.
The study implies the need for government-private sector partnership to further encourage workplace learning for all along a lifelong learning approach.

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