Journal of Management Development: Volume 16 Issue 4

The learning organization: New lessons/thinking for the management of change and management development?

Adrian Carr

Raises the issue of metaphorical thinking in organization theory and management development and in doing so warns of the dangers of framing our thinking through metaphor. Raises…

Organizational learning as the creation of corporate competencies

Dexter Dunphy, Dennis Turner, Michael Crawford

There has been a dramatic increase in interest in the learning organization. However there is confusion, among writers on the subject, about what a learning organization is and…

Business integration in a learning organization: the role of management development

Willem Overmeer

Explores difficulties involved in business integration by providing data from an in‐depth scholarly consulting project. Focuses on the barriers that exist and emerge in the form…

Becoming a learning organization: the transformation of the workforce

Robert Waldersee

The actions of outstanding leaders who are introducing changes in their organizations are best viewed as complex mosaics which pervade most aspects of their management. Argues…

Leading for learning: organizational transformation and the formation of leaders

Peter Gronn

With the recent emergence of organizational and systemic restructuring in Anglo‐American societies, leadership and the search for prospective leaders has taken on new…

Educating the gut: socio‐emotional aspects of the learning organization

Susan Long, John Newton

Examines the idea of learning in organizations with a particular focus on how organization members learn from experience, and how managers might foster a facilitating environment…

Organizational learning and the leadership skill of time travel

Thomas N. Gilmore, Gregory P. Shea

The turbulence enveloping so many organizations today makes it increasingly likely that learning from one’s experience may be both too slow and too embedded in rapidly obsolescing…