| Description |
vii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Christopher Mabey and Paul Iles -- 1. The leader's new work: building learning organizations / Peter M. Senge -- 2. Learning organizations / Margaret Dale -- 3. Why managers won't learn / Graeme Salaman and Jim Butler -- 4. The factory as a learning laboratory / Dorothy Leonard-Barton -- 5. Competency requirement forecasting: issues for international selection and assessment / Paul R. Sparrow and Mario Bognanno -- 6. The kind of competence for rapid change / Tony Cockerill -- 7. Individual and organizational learning: the pursuit of change / Alan Mumford -- 8. Empowering leaders: are they being developed? / Lynda Gratton and Jill Pearson -- 9. Action learning and excellence in management development / Charles J. Margerison -- 10. The effects of performance review in appraisals: evidence and implications / Clive Fletcher -- 11. Career development practices in the UK: a participant perspective / Christopher Mabey and Paul Iles |
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12. To coach, or not to coach - that is the question! / John O. Burdett -- 13. Strategic management development: using experiential learning theory to assess and develop managerial competencies / David Kolb, Stuart Lublin, Juliann Spoth and Richard Baker --14. Applying self-development in organizations / Mike Pedler -- 15. Building a self-directed work team /Richard S. Wellins -- 16. Dilemmas of teamwork /Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- 17. Managerial leadership: the key to good organization / Elliott Jaques -- 18. Job redesign / Mick Marchington -- 19. Innovative teams at work / Neil Anderson, Gillian Hardy and Michael West --20. Valuing differences: the concept and a model /Barbara A. Walker -- 21. Women in management: organizational socialization and assessment practices that prevent career advancement / Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe -- 22. Why executives lose their balance / Joan R. Kofodimos -- 23. Management development in Europe / Mel Berger and Paul Watts |
| Summary |
The importance of learning is linked to the current pressures for change facing most, if not all, organizations. Within a stable, unpressured environment, the need for organizational learning on a major scale is seen as unnecessary. In fact, stable environments rarely exist, just environments which are perceived as unthreatening where organizations fail to detect the small signs of emerging change and threat or react to them confidentially in terms of established ways of doing things. The concept of managing learning implies that organizations encourage their staff to be better at recognizing key signals: at analysing data, at seeing possibilities, at thinking the unthought and the unthinkable, at challenging their own and others' assumptions. None of this is new, but the notion of the learning organization seems finally to have come of age. And with maturity come hard questions: can learning actually be managed by an organization or does it just happen?; does the definition of competencies clarify or confuse when recruiting, promoting and training staff?; why do some organizational norms quench learning, while others promote it as a way of life?; do self directed teams represent a long-awaited panacea or a misguided flight from individual accountability?; and how can diversity in the workforce be used to enable, rather than inhibit, learning? This collection of readings succinctly captures the depth and diversity of the learning literature over the past ten years. Produced as a reader for students on the Open Business School diploma level course 'Managing Development and Change', this book will provide a timely source of reference for DMS and MBA students and any manager concerned with personal, group and corporate learning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Executives -- Training of.
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Management -- Study and teaching.
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Experiential learning.
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Assessment centers (Personnel management procedure)
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| Author |
Iles, Paul.
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Mabey, Christopher, 1951-
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| LC no. |
94017871 |
| ISBN |
0415119839 hardback |
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0415119847 paperback |
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