Action Learning and its Applications

✍ Scribed by Robert L. Dilworth, Yury Boshyk (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This second volume of two discusses the employment of action learning in different contexts, including healthcare, education, government, military and the business world. Use of action learning in delivery of Future Search Conferences is addressed, as well as action learning in community and civil society and the future of action learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Action Learning in Health care....Pages 3-14
Action Learning in Education....Pages 15-42
Transformative Action Learning in the U.S. Government....Pages 43-54
Action Learning in the Military....Pages 55-67
Action Learning in the Business World: Past, Present, and Future....Pages 68-98
Action Learning, Community, and Civil Society....Pages 99-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
The Practical Primacy of Questions in Action Learning....Pages 119-130
Process in Action Learning Teams: Similarities and Variations....Pages 131-143
Action Learning and Organization Development....Pages 144-153
Action Learning and the Learning Organization: Building Learning Capacity in Individuals, Groups and Organizations....Pages 154-165
Action Learning and Action Research....Pages 166-178
Future Search as Action Learning....Pages 179-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Action Learning through the Lens of Action Learners....Pages 195-210
From the Frying Pan to the Fire — And Back Again: An Action Learning Story from General Electric....Pages 211-225
My Experience with Business Driven Action Learning....Pages 226-230
Making Space for Reflection in Action Learning....Pages 231-241
Action Reflection Learning: Tales of Two Journeys....Pages 242-255
Looking to the Future of Action Learning....Pages 256-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-307

✦ Subjects

Business Strategy/Leadership; Human Resource Management; Management; Corporate Communication/Public Relations