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Stover, Sheri; Seemiller, Corey – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
The world is a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment (Carvan, 2015) that calls for leaders who can effectively navigate the complexity of leadership today. Students of leadership studies must not only learn leadership information content, but also be able to effectively implement the content and process, requiring deep…
Descriptors: Leadership, Statistical Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Organizational Development
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Aküzüm, Cemal – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Knowledge is an important concept for individuals and organizations both as a power and source. Thus, knowledge management has become important subject for researchers. However, when people encounter problems, they usually try to produce solutions by utilizing their previous knowledge and experience. Such problem solving strategies are called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Prior Learning, Knowledge Level
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Creanor, Linda – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
Distributive leadership, which has been described as a distribution of power within the sociocultural context of universities, provides a valuable model for encouraging scholarship and innovation in learning and teaching. By nurturing, rather than imposing, leadership responsibilities, and relating them to personal, as well as institutional…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Scholarship, Case Studies, Instructional Innovation
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Robson, Sue – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
This conceptual paper explores the notion of higher education (HE) internationalization and its potential to lead to transformational institutional change. Internationalization is generally regarded as a process that involves increasing the range of international activities within universities and between universities and other educational…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Organizational Change, Institutional Characteristics
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Rimanoczy, Isabel; Brown, Carole – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
This paper introduces Action Reflection Learning (ARL) as a learning methodology that can contribute to, and enrich, the practice of action learning programs. It describes the Swedish constructivist origins of the model, its evolution and the coded responses that resulted from researching the practice. The paper presents the resulting sixteen ARL…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Models
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Coughlan, Paul; Coghlan, David – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
The application of action learning in inter-organizational settings is largely undeveloped. This article presents a description of and reflection on an action learning approach to enabling collaborative improvement in the extended manufacturing enterprise. The article focuses in particular on implementing the action learning approach. However, the…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Guidelines, Organizational Development, Administrators
Gr ver Aukrust, Vibeke, Ed. – Elsevier, 2011
This collection of 58 articles from the recently-published third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education focuses on learning, memory, attention, problem solving, concept formation, and language. Learning and cognition is the foundation of cognitive psychology and encompasses many topics including attention, memory, categorization,…
Descriptors: Memory, Concept Formation, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
Many organisations, including VET providers, are looking to find ways to achieve competitive advantage through the people they employ. Creating this advantage has a number of facets and most of these depend on training and developing people, and their ability to learn. The VET sector also faces significant changes in the ways it does business.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Organizational Development, Work Environment
Ellstrom, Per-Erik; Kock, Henrik – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2008
In spite of the expectations that exist regarding efforts to develop competence and in spite of the large amounts of resources devoted to it, there is a marked lack of empirically-based research on competence development in companies and other organizations. The purpose of this article is to present a review of research on strategies for…
Descriptors: Competence, Skill Development, Concept Formation, Learning Strategies
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Fuchs, Barbara – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2007
New product development and commercialization are essential to entrepreneurial growth and international competitiveness. Excellence in this area is strongly supported by individual and organizational learning efforts. By analyzing how Japanese car manufacturer Toyota organizes learning, this paper evaluates the potential of action learning to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Organizational Change, Organizational Development, Foreign Countries
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Collinson, Vivienne – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose--The paper aims to provide a theoretically-based set of skills and practices that develop organizational members and leaders while building organizational capacity. Design/methodology/approach--The paper advances four arguments about learning and leading, drawing on classical and contemporary scholarship of organizational learning theory…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Qualities
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Cho, DaeYeon – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2002
Self-directed learning has been seen as an individual learning strategy focused on personal growth. A literature review indicates that it has interdependent and collective aspects that are consistent with those of learning organizations, making self-directed learning an effective human resource development strategy. (Contains 17 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Learning Strategies, Organizational Development
Chappell, Clive; Hawke, Geof – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This Support Document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report, "Investigating Learning through Work: The Development of the 'Provider Learning Environment Scale'" (ED503392). While couched in very different terms, the analysis presented in this report points to a substantial overlap in the conceptual bases that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Organizational Development, Work Environment
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Taber, Nancy; Plumb, Donovan; Jolemore, Shawn – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explore the interaction between organizational policies and daily work practices of paramedics and firefighters within two emergency response organizations. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected in a case study consisting of interviews, focus groups, and observations. The theoretical grounding…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Emergency Programs, Interviews, Observation
Preisinger-Kleine, Randolph – Vocational Training: European Journal, 2002
Empirical evidence indicates that learning in many organizations is simple rather than complex, and many organizations seem to be unable to reflect on and draw from learning processes. An ecological broadening of perspectives is recommended as a solution. (SK)
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Organizational Climate, Organizational Development
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