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Evaluating outdoor experiential training for leadership and team building

Williams, Scott D.; Graham, T. Scott; Baker, Bud - In: Journal of Management Development 22 (2003) 1, pp. 45-59

Advocates of outdoor experiential training (OET) fervently believe in its efficacy, but often have difficulty mustering “hard data” on the business results attributable to OET. OET adherents tend to rely on testimonials of how it promotes leadership and team development. Return on investment...

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The Keys to Successful Management Development in the 1990s

Ames, Michael; Heide, Dorothy - In: Journal of Management Development 10 (1991) 2, pp. 20-30

Europe in 1992 will have a different environment. To remain competitive firms will need to have improved their internal organisation. The relationships between three organisational variables – task design, work flow and people – and technical complexity are discussed. The Japanese...

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Integrating Self‐directed Teams into the Management Development Curriculum

Mullen, Thomas P. - In: Journal of Management Development 11 (1992) 5, pp. 43-54

Self‐directed work teams are playing an increasingly important role in companies around the world. In many respects …

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Personality Variables in Management Development Interventions

McClure, Lynne; Werther, William B. - In: Journal of Management Development 12 (1993) 3, pp. 39-47

In designing consultant‐driven management development interventions, personality issues typically are viewed as moderating variables, if they are considered at all. Reports on two “action‐research” oriented, team‐building interventions, based on Jungian theory as operationalized by the...

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Anticipatory Team Learning: What Is It and How Does it Happen?

Sashkin, Marshall; Franklin, Steve - In: Journal of Management Development 12 (1993) 6, pp. 34-43

Team building is a common thread throughout most organizational change and management development activities. As teams …

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Evaluating the effectiveness of an experiential “hybrid” workshop : strategy development and team building in a manufacturing organization

Mazany, P.; Francis, S.; Sumich, P. - In: Journal of Management Development 14 (1995) 1, pp. 40-52

Two generic uses of workshops are as an educational tool and as a vehicle for the development of corporate strategy. Most workshops commonly available have focused on the former. Examines the effect of an experiential hybrid workshop as a tool for developing corporate strategy and team building....

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Evaluating the effectiveness of an outdoor workshop for team building in an MBA programme

Mazany, P.; Francis, S.; Sumich, P. - In: Journal of Management Development 14 (1995) 3, pp. 50-68

the effectiveness of an outdoor workshop as a tool to speed the development of study groups (called learning teams) in an … classes over consecutive years. The results presented indicate that such workshops can accelerate the development of teams. In …

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Developing elements of a learning organization in a metropolitan ambulance service : Strategy, team development and continuous improvement

Francis, Stuart D.; Mazany, Peter C. - In: Journal of Management Development 15 (1996) 4, pp. 4-19

First, presents a new model for developing a learning organization which is well within the grasp of today’s organizations, since many of these already have the main components which provide the platform for this. Second, provides four measures of how an experiential workshop used to develop...

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How do we measure the effectiveness of team building? Is it good enough? Team Management Systems ‐ a case study

Rushmer, Rosemary K. - In: Journal of Management Development 16 (1997) 2, pp. 93-110

before and after measures of a team’s effectiveness theorists have ignored the change process which is taking place as a team … begins to become effective, and have treated teams at the end of a team building intervention as if they were finished …, support and facilitate this process to ensure the effective development of its work teams. …

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What happens to the team during teambuilding? Examining the change process that helps to build a team

Rushmer, Rosemary - In: Journal of Management Development 16 (1997) 5, pp. 316-327

For many years there has been a preoccupation with the need to evaluate the effectiveness of team building interventions (TBIs) in organizational development projects. Often these evaluations attempt some kind of measurement of the team before and after the team‐building event in order to...

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