Empowerment and the Evolution of Learning: Part One

Presents an approach to work‐based learning within organizations which is necessary to maintain congruence between modern approaches to management and learning. As traditional approaches to management give way to a recognition of the value of employee participation and empowerment, so also the approach to employee learning must shift. Organizations must focus on a learning partnership between the learner and the organization which enables the learner to take responsibility for their own learning. The organization must seek to facilitate learning, rather than cause it, in the context of continuous learning. Presents an approach to operationalizing empowered learning in an organization. Part Two will examine a case study on implementing empowered learning.