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"Workplaces in the Mind" as Metaphor: Advising Industry Managers Doing Doctoral Research about Organisational Change Management
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Barry Elsey – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to reflect on "good practices" in doctoral research supervision and transfer the author's experience to other academics. The author explains the sources of his approach to doctoral research supervision drawing on traditional practice in adult learning and some reference to phenomenology as a "meeting of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Organizational Change, Change Strategies, Graduate Study
Can a Professional Learning Community Deliver Career Development Learning?
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Gander, Michelle; McInnes, Margot – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2021
Purpose: The professional development needs of university professional staff are an under-researched area. More data were needed to understand their needs to ensure that employers invest their resources appropriately. A conceptual framework is developed for the workplace learning of career development activities using concepts of professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Faculty Development, Career Development, Communities of Practice
An Enterprising Phoenix: Materiality, Affect and Learning
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Rooney, Donna; Manidis, Marie; Price, Oriana M.; Scheeres, Hermine – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how workers experience planned and unplanned change(s), how the effects of change endure in organizations and the entanglement (Gherardi, 2015) of materiality, affect and learning. Design/methodology/approach: Research design is ethnographic in nature and draws from 30 semi-structured interviews of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Experience, Local Government
Work-Based Learning and Research for Mid-Career Professionals: Two Project Examples from Australia
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Fergusson, Lee; Allred, Timothy A.; Dux, Troy; Muianga, Hugo M. – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2018
Aim/Purpose: Most research on work-based learning and research relates to theory, including perspectives, principles and curricula, but few studies provide contemporary examples of work-based projects, particularly in the Australian context; this paper aims to address that limitation. Background: The Professional Studies Program at University of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Public Service, Wellness, Safety
Disturbing Practices: Training Workers to Be Lean
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Yasukawa, Keiko; Brown, Tony; Black, Stephen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities for expansive learning during organisational change. It considers the introduction of "lean production" as a disturbance to the existing work practices. Design/methodology/approach: The paper considers two case studies of "lean production" training with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Organizational Change, Manufacturing Industry
Playing the Party Game: Musical Careers
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Richards, Debbie – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: This paper seeks to understand whether significant senior management and structural changes within an Australian university is the result of learning or other influences and how these explain the impact of change on the careers of two individuals within the organisation. Design/methodology/approach: The organisation and the changes are…
Descriptors: Careers, Organizational Development, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries