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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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An Analysis of Discrimination Skills as a Process of Organizational Learning

Lyles, Marjorie A. - In: The Learning Organization 1 (1994) 1, pp. 23-32

Analyses four firms to determine if they develop the ability to be selective and to determine what factors have the greatest impact on discrimination. Discrimination skills involve the ability to discriminate or to discern differences among decision situations and to choose appropriate...

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