КОРПОРАТИВНА ОСВІТА – ПІДХОДИ ДО ВИЗНАЧЕННЯ ТЕРМІНУ

Abstract

The article considers some conceptual and categorial aspects of corporate education which allow defining the very concept “corporate education”. In order to avoid terminological misunderstanding, defining the foundational terms of any subject area is obligatory. An analysis of scientific findings and meticulous selection of terms enable setting conceptual connections between items, eliminating their misunderstanding, selecting adequate Ukrainian correspondents to the terms already established in foreign languages.An analysis of the latest researches and publications in the sphere indicates that the problem of defining corporate education in the most comprehensive way has become a center of attention for theoretical works of foreign and home specialists. The investigation of corporate education is inevitably connected with the analysis of researches in the fields of adults’ learning, lifelong learning, human resource management and development etc. This is caused by the position of corporate education on the intersection of pedagogy and organizational management.The research is also focused around differentiating various subject area-related terms. It is emphasized that corporate education, corporate training, corporate learning are different concepts, though often used interchangeably in the same context in the Anglophone scientific literature. The same approach relates to the corporate education vs. human resource development relation.The special attention is paid to knowledge-based economy which encompasses corporate education, thus, increasing its importance in the modern world. Singling out the corporate competences has allowed deeper understanding of the relevance of appropriate corporate education since this leads to understanding what should be a focus of an organization for achieving certain strategic goals. The article leaves the question of a single consolidated definition of corporate education open due to its broad and multifaceted nature.