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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
Meeting the Development Needs of Owner Managed Small Enterprise: A Discussion of the Centrality of Action Learning
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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
Management Development . . . Some Ideals, Images and Realities
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Lawrence, Gordon – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1977
The various meanings of management development are presented in the form of a working hypothesis, concluding that management development highlights the conflict between ideals of enterprise and individual development and that the relationship between the individual and his organization should be reconceptualized. (MF)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Concept Formation, Critical Thinking, Management Development
Developing the Competitive Organization: Interventions and Strategies.
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Beer, Michael; Walton, Elise – American Psychologist, 1990
Discusses how a competitive environment has given rise to a paradigmatic transformation in how corporations organize and manage people. Discusses the following topics: (1) the field of organization development; (2) how corporations transform their culture; (3) the role of effective change leaders; and (4) the role of the consultant. (JS)
Descriptors: Business Administration, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Competition
Management of Corporate Culture through Local Managers' Training in Foreign Companies in China: A Qualitative Analysis
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Zhao, Crystal L. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2005
Corporate culture is a complex phenomenon in foreign companies located in the People's Republic of China. For the management team of an international enterprise, it is a challenging task to manage cultural differences. Education and training provided to local managers might be one of the important solutions. Therefore, this study explores the…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, International Trade
HRD in Selected Nations.
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1996
These three papers were presented at a symposium on human resource development (HRD) in selected nations moderated by Alan Mumford at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development. "Perspectives of United States Expatriates in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France on Expatriation and the Role of Their Sponsoring…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Pluralism, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices
Developing & Managing Open Organizations: A Model and Methods for Maximizing Organizational Potential.
Mink, Oscar G.; And Others – 1979
This volume offers a theory-based approach intended to create organizations that are both adaptable and stable, sensitive to the needs of constituents, and able to achieve goals productively. It is addressed to those who are interested in identifying and releasing organizational potential. The book begins with a practical working model of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adjustment (to Environment), Administration, Administrator Guides