The paper deals with two main groups of learning conditions in the workplace – organizational climate and training system. It makes part of the author's doctoral thesis and presents several outcomes. Workplace learning and in-company training present important elements of adult education, further education and lifelong learning. It is a topic often discussed in recent decades. Although learning and competence development in the workplace including its conditions are often explored abroad, there are almost no resources and information about learning in companies in the Czech Republic. Our research has been inspired by several researches of learning environment (e.g. Ellström in Antonacopoulou, 2006, Evans et al., 2006, Rainbird et al., 2004 etc.) and is focused on a deep and detailed analysis of environment as well as training system in a large-sized enterprise in relation with workplace learning. The main research question is: What conditions influence learning in, for and through the workplace? The objective is to describe factors of organizational climate and factors of in-company training system and compare their relevance to the workplace learning from the point of view of employees working on different positions. This research is conducted in a large-sized company and interviews are done with employees on different positions because our aim is also to uncover different points of view as well as different learning opportunities of employees at different levels in hierarchy. The main concepts used in the research are workplace learning (learning in, for and through the workplace), informal (during work, unsystematical, often unaware) and nonformal learning (courses organized by the company), organizational climate as an important set of factors influencing learning (especially informal learning) and training system of the company playing an important role in the nonformal learning. There are four main domains (according to the literature) of conditions which play role in the approach to learning of employees – personality, circumstances, organizational climate and in-company training system. Personality and circumstances are on the employee's side and should not be omitted when speaking about learning and training in companies. But the company cannot change them. On the other hand, there is organizational culture and climate, which is very important not only for learning and training in companies, but also for work. In-company training system shows the importance that management attaches to training. We pay attention to the conditions on the company's side because these conditions can be improved through measures taken by the management.

We have chosen qualitative methodology based on interviews with chosen employees on different positions of a large-sized company settled in a city in the Czech Republic. As the research is a work of one researcher – author of the doctoral thesis – there are about 25 interviewees. All interviews are recorded and analyzed using categorization. Additional information about the company, its employees and training system come from documentary analysis and observation during author's visits in the company.

There are different conditions influencing informal and nonformal learning respectively, as well as different conditions perceived by employees on different levels. We expect that organizational climate plays a more important role for informal (than nonformal) learning and training system is more important for nonformal (than informal) learning. It also seems that organizational climate is for employees more important than training system but for management both – organizational climate and training system – are important.