...Stephen Gibb This editorial advocates the establishment of a National Research Forum for information, advice and guidance (IAG) about learning and work. The editorial proposes that the existence of such a forum would potentially raise the level and calibre of guidance research, enabling new...

...Judy Murphy This paper describes AIB’s Learning and Development Programme (LDP) for graduates, developed in 1999. AIB saw it as imperative to ensure that the investment being made by the organization on the recruitment front was well used to ensure that graduates were developed and retained within...

...Eddie W.L. Cheng; Danny C.K. Ho This article examines a parsimonious model that specifies the effects of job involvement and career commitment on learning motivation and learning transfer, using structural equation modelling. The “best fitting” model is achieved because it has surpassed all...

... learn a simple visualization technique. It is based on the work of Simonton et al. (1986). Instructions for preparing oneself for, undertaking and exiting from visualization Mentors Development Learning This article draws on the concept of possible selves, (Ruvolo and Markus...

...Linda MacGregor The article examines the thought and practice relating to mentoring in Australia. Beginning with facilitated mentoring, two case studies are provided. A second view, guided learning is also explored. The article concludes with a consideration of future trends. In 1992, when I...

...Richard Hale This article reviews mentoring literature and presents the findings emerging from research into the dynamics of mentoring and how similarities and differences between mentor and mentee influence learning for both parties and the organisation. The principal organisations contributing...

... MCB UP Limited 1999 Career development Public sector Learning The demise of the traditional career is widely heralded (Arthur and Rousseau,1996; Handy, 1994; Bridges, 1995), as is its replacement by more fluid and individual career choices. However, there remains a dearth of empirical...

...Mike Rix; Jeff Gold This article reports on a visit by a small group of SME managers from Barnsley and Doncaster in the UK to the USA. The aim of the project, entitled Networking USA, was to learn from US managers’ experiences of recovery and regeneration. Details of the preparation for the visit...

... business operations. The literature on these themes is reviewed and some recommendations for the development and management of cross‐border careers and propositions for future research are outlined. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Careers Culture Diversity Learning Mindsets Whether...

...Victor P. Lau; Margaret A. Shaffer Based on social learning theories, this conceptual paper attempts to develop a theoretical framework and testable hypotheses linking the relationship between certain personality traits and career success. Although there has been a long history of exploring...

... the complexities of leadership dynamics but also the processes of constructing behavioral models as well as multicultural and multinational perspectives on leadership. The paper describes the assignment and provides insights as to how to operationalize it in the learning environment to obtain optimal outcomes...

...Geof Alred; Bob Garvey; Richard Smith Learning in conversation occurs in a variety of ways. This paper explores one particular way which, it is argued, is central in a knowledge economy. Non‐linear learning occurs through revisiting and re‐examining recurring issues in working life to arrive at new...

... action anyway. They must learn to facilitate and attend to unfolding agreements as groups coalesce and disassemble. Managers continually find themselves at the edge of their competency. In such a context not to take a risk is risky behavior. Jazz improvisation offers some lessons. As a metaphor...

... development that deliberately focuses attention on learning and dialogue about what gives life to an organization. Explains AI principles and the 4‐D model for positive change. Provides some examples of this. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Organizational identities are embedded and emergent in conversation...

...) and a genuinely useful programme could result. We hear that learning plans are best constructed on the basis of LEARN (i.e. Limited, Exact, Appropriate, Realistic and focus on Now). They should follow a pattern of SOS (Style, Options, Selection). Style refers to learning style but here the complexity...

... in general. These new challenges include the growing importance of lifetime learning, the impact of globalisation in many areas, more flexible working, changing expectations, increasing attention to the whole area of values and a greater emphasis on personal development. All these factors are likely...

... to become redundant or obsolete as the status of the high‐potential employee fades away altogether. This trend is part of the new way organizations will be managed towards the twenty‐first century. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Career management Learning Organizational structure High‐potential...

... that many senior managers: are currently engaged in bringing about radical changes, including changes to company missions, changing company culture and significant reorganizations; and gain their most valuable learning and development, relevant to their job, from activities within their own team, and from...

...Suzanne O’Hara Considers why effective management development is critically important in today’s environment. Questions the concept of organizational change as a process that can be managed and examines instead the idea of organizational change through individual learning. Presents a process...

...Mohammad Ahmadi; Marilyn M. Helms Addresses the issue of cultural literacy and compares the cultural learning of women and men, and of minorities and non‐minorities. Discusses the possible effect of cultural literacy on career planning and training. A cultural literacy test was developed...