Action learning has been used as a potential resource of human resource development for adopting collective leadership. The word potential is noteworthy because it is not necessarily the conventional purpose of action learning when adopted as a human resource development tool. It is primarily...

In this chapter, I hope to first locate action learning within the range of prevailing “action modalities” in management development that conceive of practice as having its own epistemology. They all more or less emphasize the value of concurrent reflection on experience to expand and create...