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Aguirre, Patricia; Villota, Freddy Hernán; Mera, Silvia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: According to the importance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in meeting sustainable development goals (SDGs), the purpose of this study is to analyze how sustainability was implemented in Ecuadorian higher education. The case study of the Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN) process was analyzed to show the advantages of…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
Elsdon, Ron – National Career Development Association, 2010
This book explores the perspectives of experienced practitioners, sharing ideas about building and sustaining organizational strength through workforce development practices and systems. As the saying goes, a company's greatest resource is its people. When managers really believe that and work to develop organizational capabilities, productivity,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Labor Force Development, Workplace Learning, Organizational Effectiveness
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Kearney, Judith; Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to: extend the concept of "The learning organization" to "The learning community," especially disadvantaged communities; demonstrate how leaders in a migrant community can achieve positive change at the personal, professional, team and community learning levels through participatory action learning and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Disadvantaged, Cultural Awareness
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Cao, Rui; Chuah, Kong Bieng; Chao, Yiu Chung; Kwong, Kar Fai; Law, Mo Yin – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper addresses the importance of a more proactive role of organizational learning (OL) facilitators, learning motivation reinforcer, through a two-part longitudinal study in a case company. The first part of this study aims to investigate and analyze some unexpected challenges in the project action learning-driven (PAL) OL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Experiential Learning, Partnerships in Education
Kalman, Howard K. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
This study examined use of a strategic planning process to reinvent a corporate training department. The naturalistic case describes how the corporate training function gained credibility and influence with senior management, developed alignment with organizational goals, and began transforming the function into a performance improvement…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Advisory Committees, Industrial Training, Organizational Development
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Barber, David; Clews, Joy; Meeson, Graham; Rose, Ann; Taylor, Claire – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2008
At the time of writing, UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have either completed, or are part way through, implementation of the Framework Agreement (JNCHES 2003). This process was born out of the recommendations of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (1997) developed by Bett in his report two years later (Bett 1999). …
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparable Worth, Program Implementation, Organizational Development
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Meyer, Luanna H. – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
New Zealand universities have undergone significant structural change accompanied by declining public funding and increasing demands for accountability in recent years. In 2000, one of the country's largest universities redirected resources and funding in a "repositioning" exercise that resulted in redundancies and other consequences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Governance, Organizational Development
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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
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Bierema, Laura L.; Berdish, David M. – Performance Improvement, 1999
Discusses how organizations are gaining a competitive edge in a global business environment through learning and highlights a learning organization implementation case study of a division of Ford Motor Company. Examines the strategic initiative; performance improvement results; individual learning, including interpersonal development and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Independent Study, Interpersonal Competence, Organizational Development
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Thompson, Randal Joy – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990
Using a case study approach, it is argued that evaluators play a critical role as change agents in foreign assistance projects directed at building Third World organizations. Evaluators affect stakeholder issues, commitment to project objectives, judgments of project accomplishments, consensus among project implementors, and perspective of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Developing Nations, Evaluators
Kingsley, Judith W. – Pivot Learning Partners, 2011
When Palmdale School District and Pivot Learning Partners entered into their first contract in 2006, neither organization foresaw the magnitude and complexity the relationship would take over time. Pivot Learning Partners (formerly known as Springboard Schools) is a non-profit service provider that first entered the Palmdale School District…
Descriptors: School Districts, Organizational Development, Superintendents, Nonprofit Organizations
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Hearn, James C.; Lewis, Darrell R.; Kallsen, Lincoln; Holdsworth, Janet M.; Jones, Lisa M. – Journal of Higher Education, 2006
Implementing an incentives-based budget system at a large public research university significantly redirected internal funds while producing notable organizational and financial surprises. For example, units did not increase their "hoarding" of students, contrary to some expectations. The findings point to several issues for further…
Descriptors: Research Universities, State Universities, Incentives, Strategic Planning
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Zavala, Blanca Arciga – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2006
For more than ten years, academics of public universities in Mexico have endured modernization programs that promote individual productivity and operate as a mechanism of selection and assessment. The implementation of the programs has exposed a tension between the values implicit in the programs and the values of the academic teachers. There is a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Social Change
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Forss, Kim; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1994
Learning from evaluation is discussed with reference to the experiences of the Norwegian aid administration. The study demonstrates that evaluation builds learning through involvement and through communication. An organization can maximize its learning by making the two modes supplement each other. (SLD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Evaluation Methods
SERVE: SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education. – 1995
In 1992, the SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) began a 3-year research-and-development effort to support four schools and two school districts in the southeastern United States in their implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) processes. This document describes the experiences and perceptions of the participating…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
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