... and development interventions that seek to make better use of the knowledge and practice of individual employees. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Management development Knowledge Organizational learning Learning organizations Workplace training Surveys of skills gaps consistently...

... 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...

...’ of what we believe the market size to be and the likely growth potential.” © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 E‐learning United Kingdom Learning organizations Learning Light's report on the UK e‐learning sector in 2009 states that the sector is “flowering” and highlights...

... of knowledge as well as a host of such skills as problem solving, self‐directed learning and group dynamics, necessary for personal, and professional growth and development. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Problem based learning Learning organizations Leadership development...

... of this article. What is e‐coaching and how is it defined in the literature? Clutterbuck and Hussain (2009) indicate that problems arise with defining e‐coaching: Coaching Intranets Learning organizations Many learning organisations have a central intranet for enterprise‐wide information...

... and vision, which is crucial in the process of transformation into a learning organization. The importance of strong leaders to build shared visions and the facilitating processes has been recognized (Teare, 1997). Researchers have identified various roles, such as driver, advisor and facilitator...

... itself as an intertwined activity celebrated by complex systems and processes. 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...

.... Originality/value The paper proposes a new, more simple and valid approach to measurement of training impact that has been tried successfully in several dozen leading companies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Training evaluation Training Learning organizations Wal‐Mart...

... and core competences, thereby gaining a long‐term sustainable competitive edge in the market‐place. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Thinking Organizational change Organizational culture Learning organizations Competences In the first of two articles, I examine...

..., 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...

... 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. Learning organizations Self‐managed learning Management development Employee development Human resource management Social capital...

... as an integral element of a programme, and guidance given on its implementation. There is a good case for linking it to coaching, but in practice it is rarely used in conjunction with mentoring because of ethical issues relating to confidentiality. Coaching Mentoring Personal development plans Learning...

... organizations Knowledge Organizational performance The authors emphasise in their introduction that the book is aimed at facilitators and change agents, and is explicitly about the process of facilitation; they refer readers to their other books in which they have developed their learning organization...

... with issues of organising to deal with complexity, developing the emotional climate of the organisation and issues of integration. Alan Mumford Learning organizations Organizational theory Strategy The Twelve Organizational Capabilities Bob GarrattHarper CollinsISBN: 0...

... are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Alliances Customers Learning organizations Manufacturing Suppliers Total quality management Most manufacturing organizations, whether they realize it or not, operate and function in a strategic mode that is inflexible and unresponsive to changes...

... perspectives on the position competence development holds in the hierarchy of company values and strategies. The kinds of competencies developed in these companies and the learning approaches used are also discussed. There are many definitions of a learning organisation. Some authors stress the notion...

...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. The seeming centrality...

...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...