Factors Influencing Life-Long Learning: An Empirical Study of Young People in Vietnam

Abstract

This study, not only investigates the important role of lifelong learning in shaping young people's knowledge and in maximizing their potential, but also aims to shed light on the influencing factors of lifelong learning of young people in Vietnam. The author applied STATA and SPSS to analyze quantitative data collected from questionnaires with 332 respondents aged between 19 years old and 24 years old. Based on a holistic review of literature, this study concludes that four driver factors affect young people's lifelong learning ability, comprising: organizational culture, motivation, human resource development, and domestic private type of enterprise. The results emphasize the positivity of organizational culture, human resource development, and the nature of work, especially organizational culture and human resource development, which are dominant reasons for young people to maintain lifelong learning. The relationship between demographics and lifelong learning was tested and it indicated that male has a stronger interest in learning than female. The result of the study also shows the impact of different types of business sectors on employees' learning intentions. It points out that the domestic private type of enterprise is the most effective factor that has a positive relationship with the lifelong learning of the individual.

Revisiting Lifelong Learning and Its Practices in Vietnam

“…However, Vietnam could make a lesson to adapt it. The finding of Nguyen, Luu, & Ho (2020) also affirmed that the more staff are motivated, the more they can participate in LLL. Business employers based in Vietnam should develop working and incentive policies to motivate employees in their competitive careers by offering extra learning programs.…”

“…The shortage of systematic and legal frameworks is the focus. Nguyen, Luu, & Ho (2020) examined the potential factors affecting LLL among 332 Vietnamese college students at economic universities aged 19 to 24. The results indicated that organizational culture and human resource development are primary elements.…”

Factors and obstacles determining the investments in continuing education and training of managers: the case of Bulgarian enterprises

“…Companies with greater employee involvement in decision-making, teamwork and innovative incentive systems need to train their employees in general skills for implementing those workplace practices successfully. Sharing of the work experience, the learning-oriented culture, the existence of staff responsible for training and the quality of HR management stimulates LLL (Nguyen et al , 2020; Mishra and Smith, 2015). The abovementioned research is related to H2 .…”

“…a focus on human resource management and development (Hayton et al , 1996; Smith et al , 2009; Mishra and Smith, 2015; Bishop, 2020; Nguyen et al , 2020).…”

“…a larger size and/or involvement in R&D-related activities and innovations (Bauernschuster et al, 2009;Bellmann et al, 2014;Dostie, 2017;Bishop, 2020;Cozzarin and Percival, 2021); and H2.2. a focus on human resource management and development (Hayton et al, 1996;Smith et al, 2009;Mishra and Smith, 2015;Bishop, 2020;Nguyen et al, 2020).…”