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A unique perspective from adult educators experienced in organizational change. Shows human resource professionals, frontline managers, and others how people learn in the workplace and how to support that learning in programs that foster high employee involvement, in self-directed teams, or by addressing core organizational concerns such as balancing work and home life.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Part One Learning as a Way of Organizing
• 1 A Framework for the Learning Organization
• 2 The Continuously Learning Individual: Integrating Work and Learning
• 3 Supporting the Continuous Learner: Formal and Informal Training Strategies
• Part Two Teams That Learn
• 4 Inquiry in Action: Making Collaborative Learning Possible
• 5 Learning Together: The Team Process
• 6 Enhancing Team Learning: Three Approaches to Learning Through Action
• Part Three Organizations That Learn
• 7 Making the Transition: How Organizations Learn and Change
• 8 Redesigning Work: Organizations That Are Making Promising Changes
• 9 Empowering People Toward a Collective Vision
• 10 Organizations and the Community: Supporting the InterdepAndence of Organizations, Families, and Society
• Part Four Facing the Challenge
• 11 Overcoming Barriers to Change
• 12 Envisioning the Future: Portrait of a Learning Organization

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

KAREN E. WATKINS is associate professor, Department of Adult Education, University of Georgia, Athens. She has served as a consultant for numerous organizations including Motorola, Texas Instruments, and Chevron. Her previous books include Facilitating Learning in the Workplace (1991). VICTORIA J. MARSICK is associate professor of adult and continuing education and codirector, Adult Education Graduate Programs, at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has consulted worldwide for international agencies and U.S. firms including AT&T, Exxon, and CIBA-GEIGY. Her previous books include Learning in the Workplace and Professionals' Ways of Knowing (with H. K. Morris Baskett, 1992). Watkins and Marsick are also coauthors of Informal and Incidental Learning (1990).