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Watkins, Karen E. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1996
Organizations learn when they embed new practices and values and make real changes. Organizational learning must address group tendencies toward helplessness and conformity. Individuals still bear responsibility for monitoring what is learned. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Group Dynamics, Human Resources, Individual Development

Zwerling, L. Steven – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1992
The "portable skills" developed through the process of learning in the humanities enhance the individual in all life roles and have particular applicability in the workplace. (JOW)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Education, Individual Development

Marsick, Victoria J.; Neaman, Peter G. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1996
The lukasa, an African mnemonic device, illustrates the way in which individual meaning-making enables adults to interpret and shape organizational meaning-making. This may be limited by power abuses, lack of learning skills or developmental capacity, and the changing social contract. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Human Resources, Individual Development, Labor Force Development