... and strategising to find solutions to management problems. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Management development Knowledge Organizational learning Learning organizations Workplace training Surveys of skills gaps consistently reiterate the importance of management and leadership...

... international organizations to enhance their global performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Learning organizations Team building Competences National cultures Cross‐cultural management Cultural competence Cross‐cultural training International team building Cultural...

... comparisons and help identify trends. It will be interest to suppliers and buyers of e‐learning in the UK, as well as worldwide. It will also be of interest to market analysts and commentators on this sector. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 E‐learning United Kingdom Learning...

... Problem based learning Learning organizations Leadership development Building today's leaders requires a forecast of tomorrow's challenges, an engagement in current problems and a boldness to live forward in a world of unpredictability. In avoiding potential ambiguity, some leaders are detached...

...‐coaching as a “developmental partnership, in which all or most of learning dialogue takes place using email, either as the sole medium, or supplemented by other media”. Since in this article it is argued that the Intranet has an enabling role to augment e‐coaching in a learning organisation...

.... Angappa Gunasekaran can be contacted at: agunasekaran@umassd.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Learning organizations Continuing development The influence of innovation and learning on the achievement of a sustained competitive advantage for the firm in the knowledge‐based...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Change management Leadership Learning organizations Management strategy If anything can go wrong, it will (Murphy's Law). In order to appreciate Murphy's Law as quoted, a fundamental understanding of the principles of complexity...

... they would get around to one of these days when they had some spare time. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Training evaluation Training Learning organizations Wal‐Mart and K‐Mart are in the same business of selling consumer goods at discount prices. Both organizations also use...

.... the participants had not: Thinking Organizational change Organizational culture Learning organizations Competences In the first of two articles, I examine: Left/right brained thinking and the impact of language and difference. Trends in development and the need for team‐based whole‐brained...

..., Scotland, involving dozens of UK and international companies, government agencies, and educational institutions. The toolset, called LearningEdge, evolved out of the best practices of these organisations and learning organisation theory. Calliope Learning has been using the toolset in the North American...

...Dresina Shewbridge Eric   Parsloe and Monika   Wray . Coaching and Mentoring . London : Kogan Page   2000 . 160pp , ISBN: ISBN: 0749431180   £16.99 (paperback) Coaching Mentoring Personal development plans Learning organizations Parsloe and Wray...

... reference to two cases where SML programmes have been carefully evaluated and shown to contribute to the development of both social capital and human capital. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Learning organizations Self‐managed learning Management development Employee development Human resource...

...Alan Mumford Victoria   Marsick , Karen   Watkins . Facilitating Learning Organizations: Making Learning Count . Aldershot : Gower   1999 . £45.00 (paperback) Learning organizations Knowledge Organizational performance The authors emphasise...

...Alan Mumford © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> The Twelve Organizational Capabilities Bob GarrattHarper CollinsISBN: 0 00255 870 X2000£19.99 Keywords Learning organizations, Organizational theory, Strategy Bob Garratt in previous books has made an excellent...

... consistent with those of a learning organization. The notion of organizational learning is not entirely new but we can usefully differentiate between a long time interest in learning as a concept in organization theory and the more recent focus on the idea of the learning organization. The former...

... to take on the features of a “learning organisation”. There are many definitions of a learning organisation. Some authors stress the notion of an organisation as a cybernetic entity which learns from its experiences through encoding the insights gained into company routines. Other authors, pointing...

...Jennifer Rowley The need for organisations to survive in a changing environment has led to the development of the concept of the learning organisation. A learning organisation is an organisation that facilitates learning for all of its members, and thereby continuously transforms itself...

... in which teams function in higher education could be closely matched with the concept of the self‐directed team. The concept of the learning organization as an organization which knows how to transform itself to meet changing circumstances defines specific roles for leaders. 1 Leadership is concerned...

...Penny Gardiner; Peter Whiting The learning organization may be the key to future success for organizations. There is no blueprint for success, but companies need to recognize and utilize the experience and expertise of their employees. In return, they must provide appropriate rewards and generate...

... phenomenon of treating wild problems as if they were tame ones ‐ “reorganizing the deck chairs on the Titanic”. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Action learning Learning Learning cycle Learning organizations Thinking styles In part 1 of this article[ 1 ] I criticized the concept of the learning...