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Direct linkLustig, Patricia; Rai, Deep Ranjani – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
This article describes an example of how action learning was used as a framework for an organisational intervention to fundamentally change the organisational culture over a period of time. It also identifies our learning over that period of time and what worked well (and not so well) in an International Non-Governmental Organisation in Nepal.
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Organizational Development, Intervention
Gibb, Allan – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
This paper explores the role that action learning might play in micro and small enterprise development. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses upon the distinctive characteristics of smallness and ownership and their implication for management development processes in the owner managed firm. In particular the impact of personal…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Values, Management Development, Business Education
Powell, James A.; Houghton, Jane – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
This is an account the work of NetworkNorthWest, a [pound]1m project at the University of Salford that ran between 2004 and 2007 and was developed to address the issues relating to poor take up of traditional business support by small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and low levels of engagement of the business community with Institutes of…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Internet
Mumford, Alan – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2006
Kurt Lewin's epigrammatic paradox is particularly true for action learning. Marquardt and Waddill (2004), and previously Yorks O'Neil and Marsick (1999) have approached the issue of the relationship between theory and action learning by looking at a variety of theories which they have placed in "schools". This provides an interesting analysis, but…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Theories, Organizational Theories, Organizational Development
Raelin, Joseph A.; Raelin, Jonathan D. – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2006
In this account of practice, the authors introduce a variant of classic action learning, called developmental action learning (DAL). The DAL model, derived from cognitive development theory, introduces conventional learning modules prior to the more intensive set experience. It also calls for facilitation designed to help participants, selected…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Experiential Learning, Learning Modules, Organizational Development
Corley, Aileen; Thorne, Ann – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2006
Action learning is based on the premise that action and learning are inextricably entwined and it is this potential, to enable action, which has contributed to the growth of action learning within education and management development programmes. However has this growth in action learning lead to an evolution or a dilution of Revan's classical…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Conflict, Experiential Learning, Reflection
