Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Informal Learning About Organizational Culture at Work: A Case Study of Entry-Level Engineering Researchers in South Korea

• In Event: 61.086 - Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: 61.086-16 - Organizational Aspects of Workplace Learning

Abstract

Employing a descriptive case study approach, the purpose of this research is to illuminate informal learning about organizational culture as experienced by novice engineering researchers in a South Korean electronics company. Since organizational culture impinges on employees’ working conditions and learning, this study is intended to shed light on how employees, especially entry-level workers, in profit organizations accept or resist organizational culture and how learning takes place in the process of their adaptation with or resistance to it.

Author

• K.P. Joo, Korea National Open University