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Torbert, William R. – Management Learning, 1999
Defines the questions that are the basis of developmental-action inquiry. Outlines the type of theory and practice that supports and reflects such inquiry, and highlights how different such integrated research/practice is from empirical positivism. (Author/CCM)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Discovery Learning, Higher Education, Inquiry

Cohen, Claire – Management Learning, 1998
Suggests that management education should explore accommodation of individual expression and interpretation within a flexible and open teaching framework. Analysis of fiction may support a management education that questions its own content and context. Argues that management educators must employ a bold approach to literary criticism if use of…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Creative Thinking, Divergent Thinking, Educational Objectives

Turnage, Janet J. – American Psychologist, 1990
Reviews the status of new workplace technologies. Discusses the impact of these new technologies on individual employees, on management methods, and on organizational structure and design. Discusses the role of industrial psychologists, and how they might contribute to systematic research aimed at productivity improvement. (JS)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computers, Industrial Psychology, Labor Force Development

Beer, Michael; Walton, Elise – American Psychologist, 1990
Discusses how a competitive environment has given rise to a paradigmatic transformation in how corporations organize and manage people. Discusses the following topics: (1) the field of organization development; (2) how corporations transform their culture; (3) the role of effective change leaders; and (4) the role of the consultant. (JS)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Competition

Akin-Ogundeji, O. – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1987
The author focuses on training practices in Nigeria and issues that influence these practices. Background information on supervisory and management training in Nigeria and cross-cultural perspectives are provided. The article is based on information taken from interviews with personnel and training managers in Nigerian manufacturing companies in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship

Offermann, Lynn R.; Gowing, Marilyn K. – American Psychologist, 1990
Examines the existing and projected work force changes and the ways in which organizations themselves are evolving. Discusses issues that will demand the attention of psychologists in the workplace. Examines implications for the education and training of industrial/organizational psychologists. Presents an overview of the contents of the journal.…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Health Needs, Industrial Psychology, Job Training