Abstract
The paper dwells on how current L&D trends are followed by Canadian corporations and what their attitude to continuous learning is, considering that corporate narratives present in official documentation are relevant object for the research. In general, scientific inquiry of Canadian experience in the sphere of corporate education is relevant for comprehensive analysis as Canadian best practices can be applied by organisations of various types in other countries. The paper presents quantitative and qualitative data revealed in the process of content analysis of official narratives, their interpretation and correlations between the results and current L&D trends as outlined in the literature review. Thus, in the centre of the methodological framework of this research is content analysis. 21 general annual and sustainability reports of 13 Fortune 500 Canadian companies were sampled for extracted text narratives to be coded according to the predefined coding scheme and further interpreted. The research has allowed to answer the question whether official documentation issued by Canadian companies is resourceful for the study of corporate education in the country. The light was shed on types of reports which contain the most relevant information on the issue. The investigation revealed that the most frequent coded narratives are related to the continuous development of employees, alignment of L&D and business strategy, compliance training and inclusion & diversity training within organisations. The paper describes and discusses these results in detail as well as traces reflection of global L&D trends in corporate documentation.
Highlights
Globalisation and rapid change are among the most important attributes of today’s world
Content analysis of the reports and elaboration of the coding scheme shed the light on contexts intrinsically connected with this global learning and development (L&D) trend
The investigation revealed that sustainability reports allow а more profound analysis of corporate education issues as they are addressed inter alia to employees and cover learning and talent development more broadly than general annual reports usually targeted at clients and shareholders
Summary
Globalisation and rapid change are among the most important attributes of today’s world. The successful development of any sphere, be it social or scientific one, depends on its ability to keep up with changes at the local and global levels preliminarily due to international and interdisciplinary connections between various domains. The present research is an attempt to define the most important L&D trends at the global scale as followed by Canadian companies via content analysis of their official documentation. Since corporate narrative analysis allows studying the whole range of organisational phenomena (MerklDavies and Brennan, 2011), analysis of official documentation of Canadian companies will shed the light on the state of L&D industry in the country. Global trends in corporate L&D are tracked and analysed by a number of world-leading learning providers who consolidate data from millions of learners and a big number of corporate clients
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