Draft working paper on part-time and full-time MBA students' awareness and attitudes towards Work Based Learning (WBL) compared to other forms of learning such as academic study. Use was made of the Honey and Mumford Learning Development Questionnaires

It is not hard to see that the content as well as the context of learning in all organizations inevitably changes over time. Put simply, you are today dealing with a different generation of people, who have a different set of expectations from their forbears, as well as different resources....

This article looks at what forms organizational learning may take and how it is perceived in tertiary educational providers’ and in the communities they seek relationships with and focuses on the Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. The who, what when where and why of their...

During their academic career many students are encouraged to work in groups on their assignments. Similarly, in the workplace there has been a rise in the use of teamwork (Haskins, 1998:74, Senge, 1990, p. 236). Peer learning and the collectivising of tacit knowledge have encouraged...

Despite the fact that there have been research reports by others such as Development agencies, the research topic on collaboration between Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector has received relatively little attention from academic researchers until quite recently. Often...

Any team is at bottom really a metaphor for the synergies resulting from a bunch of conversations and related actions of a set of individuals who, because they share some core values, are able to cooperate to achieve a common task. Team development then is about the extent of cooperative...

Action Learning and action research are forms of learning by doing. The method of action research was originally credited to Kurt Lewin (1948: 202-3) but action learning was a development associated most commonly today with the pioneering work of Reg Revans (1982, 1998). Some forms of action...

This is a study of the pilot UWIC Business School SIMS project. This is an action research project for reflective practice by student teams on the MBA. The teams act as consultants to local industry and commerce. They employ a range of tools and techniques to promote corporate vision, reflective...

This paper examines actively-embodied learning and was part of an action research project undertaken originally by a group of MBA students during 1996 and 1998 that was extended by the first author. The MBA teams' projects were initially undertaken as a number of consultancy projects for local...