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Tabbron, Alison; Macaulay, Steve; Cook, Sarah - In: Training for Quality 5 (1997) 1, pp. 6-9

experience of best practice organizations using mentoring and draws on a feasibility survey of managers in a 10,000 strong global …

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Designing effective employee training programmes

Hughey, Aaron W.; Mussnug, Kenneth J. - In: Training for Quality 5 (1997) 2, pp. 52-57

Describes the elements of a successful employee training programme. Explains the distinction between training and education, along with a discussion of why “soft skills” training initiatives are less effective than skills‐based approaches. Discusses the critical role of the training...

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Implications of complexity and chaos theories for organizations that learn

Smith, Peter A.C. - In: The Learning Organization 10 (2003) 6, pp. 321-324

In 1996 Hubert Saint‐Onge and Smith published an article (“The evolutionary organization: avoiding a Titanic fate”, in The Learning Organization , Vol. 3 No. 4), based on their experience at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). It was established at CIBC that change could be...

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We will teach you the steps but you will never learn to dance

Turner, Jane; Mavin, Sharon; Minocha, Sonal - In: The Learning Organization 13 (2006) 4, pp. 398-412

managers in unlocking or inhibiting individual learning. In “Scriptorg” individuals are trapped in a cycle of “not learning” or … highlight the significance of managers in inhibiting individual learning in organization and reinforces that practitioners … of managers, consequently enabling individuals to dance. …

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Measuring organizational learning capability in Indian managers and establishing firm performance linkage : An empirical analysis

Bhatnagar, Jyotsna - In: The Learning Organization 13 (2006) 5, pp. 416-433

managers of public, private and multinational organizations and establish the link between OLC and firm performance. Design …/methodology/approach – The data were collected from a sample of 612 managers randomly drawn from Indian industry, using a questionnaire survey …. Findings – Organizational capability perception for the managers of the IT sector and of multinational firms was the highest …

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Managing intentionally created communities of practice for knowledge sourcing across organisational boundaries : Insights on the role of the CoP manager

Garavan, Thomas N.; Carbery, Ronan; Murphy, Eamonn - In: The Learning Organization 14 (2007) 1, pp. 34-49

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore strategies used by communities of practice (CoPs) managers when … identified a number of specific strategies CoP managers use to develop trust, facilitate collaboration, facilitate the … negotiation of shared meaning and manage power issues within the CoP. These strategies were shared by the four managers who …

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Knowledge worker control: understanding via principal and agency theory

Mitchell, Rebecca; Meacheam, David - In: The Learning Organization 18 (2011) 2, pp. 149-160

influence are available to knowledge work managers, and the circumstances under which these different approaches are indicated …

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A longitudinal study of individual and organisational learning

Campbell, Timothy T.; Armstrong, Steven J. - In: The Learning Organization 20 (2013) 3, pp. 240-258

. Practical implications – There is benefit for managers in promoting organisational learning; however, care must be taken to …

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Four Approaches to Learning from Experience

Mumford, Alan - In: The Learning Organization 1 (1994) 1, pp. 4-10

Investigates what lies behind the cliche that “managers learn from experience”. Reviews a project undertaken with 21 … an improved analysis of the alternative ways in which managers approach their experiences. The apparently obvious … proposition that managers learn in hindsight by looking at the experiences they have had and, much less frequently, learn by …

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Learning for Total Quality : An Action Learning Approach

Chan, K.C. - In: The Learning Organization 1 (1994) 1, pp. 17-22

criticism of business school graduates as “corporate burdens” incapable of functioning as competent managers. The discordant … managers to focus primarily on their own experiences, to learn from exposure to problems and to learn from one another. The … learning process is social; managers learn best to work in teams; managers learn by doing. Total learning for quality …

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