Action Learning: A Practical Guide for Managers

✍ Scribed by Krystyna Weinstein

• Publisher: Gower,
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 245
• Edition: 2 Sub
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Our daily experiences at work provide us with endless opportunities to learn - which is the principle underlying action learning. If you want to understand the benefits of being part of an AL programme, or would like to set one up but need to know more, then this popular guide could be an ideal place to start. It is both a manifesto for a key approach to management development, and a personal and practical guide for anyone looking for a reliable introduction. This revised edition includes expanded material on set advisers and on putting an effective programme into practice, together with a new chapter on the future of AL.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Part 1 Definitions and Theoretical Background......Page 16
1 What is action learning?......Page 18
2 The theory and philosophy of action learning......Page 42
Part 2 Action Learning in Practice......Page 70
3 The set......Page 72
4 The action: projects and tasks......Page 100
5 The processes in the set......Page 124
6 The set adviser......Page 150
7 Time......Page 164
8 The learning......Page 174
9 Overcoming some reservations......Page 214
10 The future of action learning......Page 218
11 How to design an action learning programme......Page 228
Useful addresses......Page 240
References and further reading......Page 242
L......Page 244
V......Page 245