Describes "Developing the Learning Company," a pilot project funded by Great Britain's Manpower Services Commission. Its purpose was to define and test the feasibility of Learning Companies as an approach to business and human resource development strategies. A Learning Company is one that facilitates the learning of all its members and…

Examines the limitations of present systems of management development, with particular attention to the problems caused by increasing organizational and occupational change and fluctuation. Availability: M.E.A.D. Subscriptions, C.S.M.L., University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England. (SK)

Some cases of managers' resistance to learning may be explained in terms of the organizational structure in which they work and what these structures teach them. Organizational cultures may generate bonds of loyalty and group cohesion that interfere with attempts at training for change in management practice. (SK)

Describes a management development approach that enables managers as individuals to develop a sense of purpose and direction for themselves and the business. It encourages individual and organizational analysis to identify desired directions. (JOW)

Describes how training managers initiated a senior management development program to help an organization develop a new approach to managing change and upheaval. (Author/JOW)