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Groot, Nol; Homan, Thijs H. – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2012
This paper, based on a narrative of one of the authors, explores management reality where a chosen strategy developed into a different direction than expected. The authors offer an insight in a manager's daily struggle, where power, gossip and conflict can influence the strategising process. The plans and strategic ambitions chosen at the outset…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Leadership, Administration, Organizational Change
Patterson, Jean A. – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
This article discusses sensemaking as a broad framework for understanding organisational learning and its implications for leadership in a global context. Organisational metaphors, the concept of liminality and understanding organisations as interpretation systems are presented as possibilities for enhancing intercultural communication within…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Figurative Language, Organizational Development, Leadership
Hazy, James K.; Silberstang, Joyce – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
One tradition within the complexity paradigm considers organisations as complex adaptive systems in which autonomous individuals interact, often in complex ways with difficult to predict, non-linear outcomes. Building upon this tradition, and more specifically following the complex systems leadership theory approach, we describe the ways in which…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Leadership, Interaction, Research Methodology
Manikutty, Sankaran – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
The steadily increasing degree of globalisation of enterprises implies development of many skills, among which the skills to learn are among the most important. Learning takes place at the individual level, but collective learning and organisational learning are also important. Learning styles of individuals are different and learning styles are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Cognitive Style, Educational Environment
Groot, Nol – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
All executives strive for better results in their organisations and they are always dependent on others to achieve these results. This article is concerned with the ways in which these better results might be achieved and the role senior management might play in this process. The traditional view is that senior executives design and control the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Self Concept, Organizational Development
Rimmington, Glyn M.; Alagic, Mara – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2009
Learning organisations face new challenges in the 21st century. Increased flow of trade in commodities, manufactured goods and information as well as mobility of people have led to increased global interdependence, interconnectedness and cultural diversity. People and teams within learning organisations have become globally distributed with the…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communication Strategies, Perspective Taking, Cultural Pluralism
Piranfar, Hosein – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2007
The paper examines the role of leadership in facilitating collective learning and capacity building by utilising ideas from the fields of evolutionary learning, operations strategy, quality, project and risk management. Two contrasting cases are chosen to show how success and failure can depend upon collective capacity building through…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Administrator Role, Fundamental Concepts, Personality Traits
Debowski, Shelda; Blake, Vivienne – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2007
Academic leaders face particular challenges when they assume formal leadership roles in higher education. For the most part, they have had little prior engagement with the political, economic and strategic context of their institution and limited leadership networks on which to draw. The University of Western Australia has trialled a number of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Instructional Leadership, Models