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Brook, Cheryl; Abbott, Christine – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
This paper explores the learning and experience of Western action learning facilitators engaged in developing Chinese facilitators of action learning, all of whom were also managers, as part of a qualification programme based in China. The Western facilitators interviewed for this study had been specifically asked by their hosts to deliver a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Organizational Development
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Whitchurch, Celia; Skinner, Maureen; Lauwerys, John – Australian Universities' Review, 2009
This paper reviews three developments relating to professional staff in UK higher education. The first of these is a major report undertaken for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE), which has re-conceptualised the activities of professional staff within a theoretical framework of identity (Whitchurch, 2008a). The other two…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Personnel, Career Development, Organizational Change
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Barber, David; Clews, Joy; Meeson, Graham; Rose, Ann; Taylor, Claire – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2008
At the time of writing, UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have either completed, or are part way through, implementation of the Framework Agreement (JNCHES 2003). This process was born out of the recommendations of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (1997) developed by Bett in his report two years later (Bett 1999). …
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparable Worth, Program Implementation, Organizational Development
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Edmonstone, John; Flanagan, Hugh – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2007
The current profile of action learning in the UK has recently become clearer (Pedler et al., 2005). Using the template of what have been described as "Revans's Classical Principles", fundamental divergences have begun to emerge. Pedler et al. (2005) identified a number of variances from this template--specifically the use of permanent…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Problem Solving
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Kidger, Peter; Jackson-van Veen, Margot; Redfern, David – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2004
A key issue in international management is the extent to which management practices are converging in response to the pressures of globalisation, and the ready availability to managers in all parts of the world of the same concepts of what constitutes best practice in the different management disciplines. In some instances convergence may be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Media Adaptation
Further Education Development Agency, London (England). – 1995
This document, which is intended for individuals responsible for planning and management at further education (FE) colleges, summarizes the factors that contributed to or obstructed implementation of strategic plans in 10 FE colleges in England and Wales in 1994-95. It presents key questions and illustrations that FE colleges can use for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Check Lists, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Tchaban, A., Ed. – 1999
This document presents five papers, each describing different experiences in the introduction, promotion and implementation of innovative adult training approaches aimed at achieving more flexibility in skill development. An introduction (Anatoli Tchaban) presents background information and a synthesis of the studies covering definitions, concepts…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Corporate Education