Reports on the use of organization development consultation at a middle school to enhance the process of implementing shared governance. Improvements in many aspects of organizational functioning were reported in follow-up interviews. Presents organizational development consultation as a new role for school social workers, adding value to the…

Explains lean instructional systems design/development (ISD) as it relates to curriculum architecture design, based on Japan's lean production system. Discusses performance-based systems; ISD models; processes for organizational training and development; curriculum architecture to support job performance; and modular curriculum development. (LRW)

This article explores the development of disability charities in the United Kingdom, especially Mencap, a charity to help people with learning disabilities and their families. Tensions between the need to sell an image that attracts financial support and the campaign for equal rights and dignity are explored. (DB)

Describes a mentoring program that matched senior managers with high-potential people. Steps include matching mentors and proteges, meeting with participants, implementing the program, and evaluating the program. (JOW)

Discusses how to use benchmarking as both a quantitative and qualitative tool when reviewing management development in light of changing business strategy and organizational design. Highlights include cost effectiveness, a benchmarking framework, and the impact on human resource development (HRD) functions. (Author/LRW)

Examined perceptions of school leaders relating to schools as organizations. Found that the nature of schools as organizations is contested, with much of the regulatory framework within which schools operate no longer supportive of the direction for development favored by school leaders who have thought through their own commitment to learning.…

Discusses the need for workers to acquire more information at an increasing rate in response to changes and developments in the workplace and proposes three variables that affect an individual's participation in an organization's development process. Considers learning participation and implications for human development practitioners. (Author/LRW)

This comprehensive review of the history of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy begins with a review of pharmaceutical education before 1900 and goes on to initial organizational steps (1900-1925), development of standards (1925-1950), organizational development (1950-1975), organizational issues (1975-1999), and ideas about the next…

Examines three views of performance improvement--scientific management, instructional design, and systems thinking--each providing a unique view of performance improvement and specific roles for evaluation. Provides an integrated definition of performance and a synthesis model that encompasses the three views. (AEF)

Action science can play a role in virtual team development. Participants write action science cases of problematic interactions in their work and discuss them in small groups. (JOW)

Organizational learning, along with a framework for diversity, is an effective approach for campuses seeking sustained institutional change with regard to diversity. (Contains 2 figures.)

In exploring intricate relationships among environmental factors, internal school conditions and contextual variables that facilitate organisational learning, 90% of staff in six Western Australian secondary schools provided data for this exploratory study. Findings from the study not only shed light on the decade-old debate about the basic…

This article examines the alignment and fit between knowledge management and organizational learning to determine the potential feasibility of integrating the two approaches. The philosophical roots of both disciplines are traced to common ground in a philosophy known as "pragmatism". Early generation forms of knowledge management are critiqued…

Purpose: This paper argues that failing to grasp thoroughly the influence of power on the strategy-making process can severely inhibit the potential of strategy making as a vehicle of organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: First the organizational learning perspective on strategic management is sketched and an attempt is made to…

This is an account of a programme involving the application of action learning to the task of "blending personal development with development of an organisation's capability". It was aimed at dismantling cross boundary barriers and extending cross boundary networks. It became clear that staff needed to reflect on their own effectiveness in current…