... ICPs. The action learning sets were well-received and allowed participants to critically reflect on and learn from one another’s experiences. The mentoring programme allowed them to apply their developing leadership skills to real workplace challenges that they face. Research limitations...

... This study aims to analyse the line managers and employees’ use of lean task boards over time in Norwegian municipalities using action learning theory. The research question was the following: what kind of action learning processes do the line managers and employees’ use of the lean task board promote...

...Ken Eason Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how action learning concepts were used in two healthcare projects undertaken many decades apart. The specific purpose in both cases was to examine how action learning can contribute to shared learning across key stakeholders in a complex...

...Anna Paldam Folker; Sigurd Lauridsen Purpose The aim of this study is to clarify how action learning can be used as a vehicle for promoting equal access to municipal health services for socially disadvantaged groups in a Danish context. It is the purpose of this paper to describe the methods...

... and individual levels. By using the action learning method, this paper examines the phases of organizational learning in a private healthcare organization that has developed a novel Big Data screening tool for the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). Design/methodology/approach Relying...

...Simon Mathews; Sherita Golden; Renee Demski; Peter Pronovost; Lisa Ishii Purpose The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how action learning can be practically applied to quality and safety challenges at a large academic medical health system and become fundamentally integrated...

...Robert James Warwick; Adam Palmer; Janet McCray Purpose This paper aims to explore the impact of action learning (AL) on an individual and an organisation, particularly the process by which each affected the other. The organisation is a UK National Health Service (NHS) Trust that includes two...

...Karen Gillett; Liz Reed; Liz Bryan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the delivery of facilitated action learning sets as an integral component of a multidisciplinary end-of-life care course. Design/methodology/approach The educational intervention described in this paper...

...Donna R. Dinkin; Steve L. Frederick Purpose This study aims to describe the use of action‐learning projects in 14 regional leadership development programs called public health leadership institutes. Design/methodology/approach During the period of April through August 2009, directors...

...Jennifer K. Bowerman Mike   Pedler . Action Learning for Managers . Gower Publishing Limited , 2008 . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 --> Action learning Managerial learning Organizational change I first heard Mike Pedler talking about action...

...Mike Pedler; Christine Abbott Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enquire into the role and skills of the action learning facilitator in the context of service improvement work in the UK's National Health Service (NHS). An earlier companion paper examined the concept of service improvement...

...Mike Pedler; Christine Abbott Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine questions concerning service improvement and the possible contribution of action learning as a means of bringing about both personal and organisational development. A second companion paper deals with the facilitation...

... discussed are career development for people interested in working with organizational change, learning at work using an action learning approach, trust building through communication, and working with stakeholders effectively to bring about change. In the last ten years, the large community hospital...

...Vance M. Jackson This paper explores how medical quality management has developed in the USA since the 1900s reviewing and summarizing the history of the movement through an extensive literature review. With a particular emphasis on action learning as a theoretical construct, the paper...

... describes her motivation for this kind of work. She describes how she will apply some of the action learning principles recently learned to bring a mix of people together to discuss and work through issues relating to the care of clients residing in the Alzheimer unit. Canadian statistics suggest...

...Jennifer K. Bowerman This article examines a leadership development program based on action learning principles, in a quasi government health insurance organization, undergoing transformation to a more private and entrepreneurial format and attempting to shake some of the more bureaucratic shackles...