... to create learning organizations for building learn capabilities and competencies. Quinn (1992) suggests that looking beyond mere product lines to a strategy built around core intellectual or service competencies provides both a rigorously maintainable strategic focus and long term flexibility. He further...

... of practice ensuring currency in WBL and the sharing of good practice. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Action learning Development Education Retention Learning organizations It has been a tumultuous time for work‐based learning (WBL) in recent years. Myriad changes have taken place within...

... is evidently high. Knowledge economy Learning organizations Curriculum Learning Taylor’s College, situated in Kuala Lumpur, was formed in 1969 and is considered to be one of Malysia’s leading private providers of higher education and training. It offers a full degree program providing its...

... (Gill, 2000). The concept of “the learning organisation” (Garvin, 2000, pp. 3‐17) now has a significant bottom‐line attraction. The success of an organisation can depend upon its recognition of itself as a social learning system engaged with communities of practice (Wenger, 2000), intersecting...

...Harry Matlay Much has been written, in recent years, on the subject of learning organisations and knowledge‐based businesses. Most research in this area, however, focuses upon large businesses. In this type of firm, it appears the concepts of “organisational learning” and “learning organisation...

... and the learning organisation as essentially synonymous. Flying in the face of academia he sides with the practicing manager who, Denton argues, is often “the best judge of whether a term has any meaning”. Yet, as we see when conclusions are drawn about the five case studies, all are identified as practicing...

... development of the scheme. Action learning Business education Higher education Industry Learning Learning organizations Management development …having seen where other people were with their projects sort of scared you into getting on with the work (Frank). This aspect is even more...

... Business education Higher education Industry Learning Learning organizations Management development This article reports on an evaluation of an attempt to improve the practice of sandwich placement education. Specifically, it seeks to assess the effects of introducing action learning...

... to release the human potential of managers. Contends that the over‐control of the management curriculum through competences encourages conformity and fails to challenge the received wisdom of current practice. Competences Learning organizations Management development Objectives Standards...