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Action Learning Drives the Emerald Academy
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Nalborczyk, Sarah; Sandelands, Luke – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2012
This account examines the action learning process adopted by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., embedded in the organization through the in-company Emerald Academy. In case study format, the paper emphasizes that in order to align learning with organizational objectives joined up thinking and practice is needed beyond the learning and development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Organizational Objectives, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes
Action Learning--An Experience Working with Executives at the IBM Corporation
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Tracy, Marianne – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2011
The increasing emphasis on innovation in executive development has important implications for contemporary organizations talent professionals and strategy creators. Providing an experience that addresses individual and team development, strategic innovation, organizational alignment and the integration of values is the objective of the action…
Descriptors: Team Training, Innovation, Experiential Learning, Organizational Development
Talent Scout
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Dolezalek, Holly – Training, 2010
Most companies need a steady stream of talent to enter, then move up in, the organization. But at most companies, the care and feeding of that talent stream is often a bit fragmented; recruitment is largely an HR function, while succession planning--to the extent there is any--is left in the hands of executive leadership. Development of the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Talent Development, Industrial Education, Industrial Training
Training Facilities: Xerox International Center for Training and Management Development--"A Place to Learn"
Training and Development Journal, 1977
Describes the Xerox International Center for Training and Management Development in terms of the physical facilities, sales training, service training, and Xerox instructors. (TA)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Curriculum, Educational Facilities, Industrial Training
An Examination of Current Conflict Management Training Practices in 10 Large American Organizations.
Shockley-Zalabak, Pamela S. – 1984
To describe the conflict management training practices in 10 large American organizations, a study gathered descriptive data through interviews with organizational personnel responsible for training and development, a review of written materials where available, and observations of the delivery of conflict management training programs. The…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Employer Employee Relationship
A TIME TO TRAIN, AN ACCOUNT OF EXPERIENCE GAINED BY RTB, AT ITS SPENCER WORKS.
BAKER, JAMES; REYNOLDS, O.W. – 1966
EDUCATION AND TRAINING, BEGINNING 18 MONTHS BEFORE THE OPENING IN 1962 OF THE NEW SPENCER WORKS STEEL PLANT OF RICHARD THOMAS AND BALDWINS, LTD., IN MONMOUTHSHIRE, ENGLAND, INVOLVED ALL LEVELS OF PERSONNEL. (SOME PROGRAMS, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR CLERICALS, WERE DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE OPENING.) THE UNDEVELOPED SITE, RADICALLY NEW EQUIPMENT AND…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Automation, Engineering, Industrial Training
HRD in France: The Corporate Perspective
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Weil, Amandine; Woodall, Jean – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2005
Purpose: To explore and describe the roles, activities and strategies of French human resource development professionals. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based primarily on exploratory and descriptive research. A range of secondary sources on European and French human resource development is critically reviewed to generate a number of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Human Resources