Towards the Learning Company
Concepts and Practices
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
Published on 15. August 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-07-707802-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume features a collection of ideas and practices on how to broaden, relate and apply the learning company concept. Based on conferences, work with companies, workshops and seminars, the book aims to stretch the reader's thinking and present possibilities of what it can mean to be a learning company. It includes contributions form management innovators and practitioners.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
35ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
4200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-707802-7 (9780077078027)
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Content
Part 1 Ideals and issues: the changing view of learning, Peter Hawkings; organizations, values and learning, Peter Binns; power, politics and ideology, John Coopey; the spirit of the learning company, Julia Davies; energies of organization and change, Paul Tosey; levels of learning in organizations, David Sutton; creating space in the learning company, Alan Phillips; participation in the learning company, Chris Blantern and John Belcher; William Blake's fourfold vision and consciousness in organizations, David Rooke and Jackie Keeley; what is organizational biography?, Mike Pedler; learning to achieve transformation in health, Hilary Lines and Bob Ricketts; the never-ending journey, Chris Minett and Margaret Attwood; becoming a learning organization - how as well as why, Michael Pearn et al; engaging and confronting the personal responsibility of the learning company, Jim Butler; facilitating individual and organizational learning from the inside, John Edmonstone and Maggie Havergal; business schools as learning companies, David Ashton. Part 2 Learning amoeba: supporting individual managers during rapid change, Mac Stephenson; worlds apart?, John MacMersh; turning the environment from a threat into an opportunity, John Gunson.