More Than Management Development : Action Learning at General Electric Company

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- PART ONE THE ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMME -- 1 ACTION LEARNING, Professor Reg Revans The business of learning about business -- 2 PROGRAMME OUTLINE, David Casey General description of the programme -- 3 PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT, David Pearce How the action learning programme was developed at GEC -- PART TWO PARTICIPANTS' EXPERIENCES -- 4 THE PROJECT IS EVERYTHING, Bill Prince A micro-electronics product policy problem tackled by a manager from another part of GEC -- 5 LEARNING HOW TO LEARN, Peter Preston Participants from the Post Office and GEC work together -- 6 THIS IS THE WAY TO UNLOCK RESOURCES, Don Howell A GEC manager is assigned to a major problem in a government department -- 7 IT DIDN'T WORK FOR ME, David Carr A manager tries to take on his own job as an action learning project -- 8 NOW ... TO RUN A COMPANY, Colin Gaskell A project within his own company, but outside his own job, by a GEC manager -- 9 COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY TO GETTING COMMITMENT, Barry Scott A technical manager takes on a systems problem in another part of GEC -- PART THREE ALP INTERNATIONAL AND DUNCHURCH INDUSTRIAL STAFF COLLEGE -- 10 THE CHALLENGE WAS WORTH IT, Ray Godsall What the industrial staff college which housed the programme felt -- 11 DON'T CALL ME TEACHER, Bob Garratt An ALP project adviser's view from his set -- 12 ALP IS LEARNING TOO, Jean Lawrence A director of ALP International reviews her programme involvement -- PART FOUR THE IMPACT OF ACTION LEARNING ON GEC -- 13 WE'D DO IT AGAIN, Clem Jansen and Don Sinclair Two GEC managers review the project carried out in their company -- 14 YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AN EXPERT, Glyn Trollop GEC's group personnel manager reviews his experiences as a set adviser.