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More than management development : action learning at GEC /
Published in 1977, this is a detailed account of the results of controversial methods as they were applied in a major company, when twenty-one managers came together for eight months to grapple with important problems for the purpose of learning some of the skills required for senior management. Fro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Colección: | Routledge revivals.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART ONE THE ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMME; 1 ACTION LEARNING, Professor Reg Revans The business of learning about business; 2 PROGRAMME OUTLINE, David Casey General description of the programme; 3 PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT, David Pearce How the action learning programme was developed at GEC; PART TWO PARTICIPANTS' EXPERIENCES; 4 THE PROJECT IS EVERYTHING, Bill Prince A micro-electronics product policy problem tackled by a manager from another part of GEC
- 5 LEARNING HOW TO LEARN, Peter Preston Participants from the Post Office and GEC work together6 THIS IS THE WAY TO UNLOCK RESOURCES, Don Howell A GEC manager is assigned to a major problem in a government department; 7 IT DIDN'T WORK FOR ME, David Carr A manager tries to take on his own job as an action learning project; 8 NOW ... TO RUN A COMPANY, Colin Gaskell A project within his own company, but outside his own job, by a GEC manager; 9 COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY TO GETTING COMMITMENT, Barry Scott A technical manager takes on a systems problem in another part of GEC
- PART THREE ALP INTERNATIONAL AND DUNCHURCH INDUSTRIAL STAFF COLLEGE10 THE CHALLENGE WAS WORTH IT, Ray Godsall What the industrial staff college which housed the programme felt; 11 DON'T CALL ME TEACHER, Bob Garratt An ALP project adviser's view from his set; 12 ALP IS LEARNING TOO, Jean Lawrence A director of ALP International reviews her programme involvement; PART FOUR THE IMPACT OF ACTION LEARNING ON GEC; 13 WE'D DO IT AGAIN, Clem Jansen and Don Sinclair Two GEC managers review the project carried out in their company
- 14 YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AN EXPERT, Glyn Trollop GEC's group personnel manager reviews his experiences as a set adviser15 IT'S OPENING OUR MINDS, Mike Bett What the process of action learning has started in GEC; 16 ACTION LEARNING AND THE COMPANY, Professor Tony Eccles A project adviser, who is also a professor of business policy, takes the broad view; POSTSCRIPT: GEC'S SECOND AND THIRD PROGRAMMES; APPENDICES; Appendix I The offer document; Appendix II Debate between set advisers and GEC staff; Appendix III List of participants and their projects; GLOSSARY