Organizational Learning Contracts

Author : Paul S. Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199876358

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Organizational Learning Contracts by Paul S. Goodman Pdf

This book addresses a new concept, the organizational learning contract, a shared agreement among the faculty, staff, and students in an educational institution about what, how, where, and when learning should take place. Goodman, who has pioneered the concept in his work with new and traditional institutions, examines the consequences of strong and weak contracts while bridging theory with practice. In the first section, Goodman develops the concept of the organizational learning contract, builds measures, and looks at the consequences of strong versus weak contracts on student and institutional effectiveness indicators. The second section, which includes the perspectives of two leaders of start-up institutions who have created new organizational contracts, explores issues of design and change in introducing the concept into new and existing institutions.

Author : Henschke, John Arthur
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799839385

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Facilitating Adult and Organizational Learning Through Andragogy: A History, Philosophy, and Major Themes by Henschke, John Arthur Pdf

Andragogy may be defined as a scientific discipline for study of the research, theory, processes, technology, practice, and anything else of value and benefit including learning, teaching, instructing, guiding, leading, and modeling/exemplifying a way of life that would help to facilitate and bring adults to their full degree of humaneness. Andragogy is one part of the broader international field of adult education, human resource development, and lifelong learning, thus serving the advancement and connection needs of adult learners, organizational development, and lifelong learning in areas such as higher education, business, military, corporate training, healthcare, executive leadership, courtroom practice, religious life, and human resource development. Facilitating Adult and Organizational Learning Through Andragogy: A History, Philosophy, and Major Themes investigates the history, philosophy, and major themes of andragogy and how they may contribute to helping practitioners to design and facilitate adult and organizational learning. The book presents more than 500 documents that are examined through two different lenses. The first lens is the history and philosophy (or a chronological approach) of andragogy while the second lens takes a look at the major themes as categories of what the documents express. While encompassing the background, uses, and future of andragogy, this book is ideally intended for teachers, administrators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students.

Author : Daniel Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1092826726

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On-Target Learning by Daniel Tobin Pdf

Training groups often complain that their work isn't valued, that they can't get the attention of their organizations' leaders, that they can't get "a seat at the table" where plans are made. On-Target Learning will teach you how to earn that precious seat at the table.Throughout his 40 years in learning and development in a variety of companies, Dan Tobin has been known as an innovator and a disruptor. More than 20 years ago, he created a process for tying all learning initiatives directly to corporate, group, and individual business goals - a process he called a "Learning Contract" and he has presented this model to dozens of executive, human resources, and training groups throughout the world. When explaining the learning contract process, he has often been asked when he would create a toolkit for people to use in implementing the process. On-Target Learning presents this toolkit.The Learning Contract starts with the organization's goals, determines how learning can contribute to the achievement of those goals, develops a learning plan, and follows through to ensure that what is learned is actually applied to people's work to help them meet those goals. Further, it recommends that people in the field redefine their roles from "trainers" to "learning facilitators."On-Target Learning not only explains the Learning Contract process, but also provides practical advice to training groups on how to implement each step. It is full of examples from Dan Tobin's own career and from other companies whose stories Dan has collected over the years from the research he has done for previous books. The chapters on the Learning Contract is followed by a discussion of "Evaluating Your Learning Initiatives."As a bonus, Dan has included a chapter on "Other Lessons Learned." This chapter contains a variety of stories from Dan's career in hope that people currently working in the training/learning/development field can glean some ideas that will be helpful to them in their current jobs and their careers.Dan is now semi-retired, doing occasional consulting and speaking engagements. He is the author of seven previous books on corporate learning strategies, and he hopes that On-Target Learning will be his legacy to the field.

Author : George Boak
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0566079275

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A Complete Guide to Learning Contracts by George Boak Pdf

George Boak's book reviews the different kinds of contract and looks at their advantages and disadvantages. He explains what is involved in preparing, negotiating, supporting and evaluating a contract and discusses related issues such as accreditation and the links between learning contracts and the competency-based approach.

Author : Arthur M. Langer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415948363

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IT and Organizational Learning by Arthur M. Langer Pdf

This book is designed to help business and individual managers understand and cope with the many issues involved in developing learning organizations and integrating an important component: their IT organizations. The book provides a combination of research case studies and existing theories on organizational learning in the workplace, to provide researchers and corporate practitioners tools to incorporate a growing information technology infrastructure with their existing workforce culture.

Author : Kenneth Leithwood,Karen Seashore Louis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000099539

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Organizational Learning in Schools by Kenneth Leithwood,Karen Seashore Louis Pdf

This volume presents the view that what matters most are learning processes in organizations and ways of enhancing the sophistication and power of these processes. Each contributor, therefore, explicitly addresses the meaning(s) of organizational learning which they have adopted themselves.

Author : Geoff Anderson,David Boud,Jane Sampson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0749418478

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Learning Contracts by Geoff Anderson,David Boud,Jane Sampson Pdf

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Author : Anderson, Geoff,Boud, David,Sampson, Jane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135361068

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Learning Contracts by Anderson, Geoff,Boud, David,Sampson, Jane Pdf

Learning contracts have been a successful feature of many university/continuing education programmes over the last 20 years but many staff are still unfamiliar with them or have difficulty using them. This guide introduces the learning contract to those considering using them on their courses.

Author : Arthur M. Langer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000990966

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Information Technology and Organizational Learning by Arthur M. Langer Pdf

Because digital and information technology (IT) has become a more significant part of strategic advantage and workplace operations, information systems personnel have become key to the success of corporate enterprises, particularly with the pursuit of becoming more "digital." This book focuses on the vital role that technology must play in the course of organizational development and learning and on the growing need to integrate technology, particularly digital technology, fully into the culture of all organizations. Fundamentally this fourth edition takes an even stronger position than the previous editions that organizational learning is crucial to the success of what has been coined "digital transformation." Companies are struggling to understand what it means to "be digital." Their technology personnel go far beyond the traditional IT staff into areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NL). These three functions now fall under the auspices of "data science," which is now at the center of allowing companies to become more data dominant as is necessary for survival. While traditional IT personnel have long been criticized for their inability to function as part of the business, they are now vital to assist in the leadership of digital transformation. It could be a costly error to underestimate the technical skills needed by IT staff to ensure successful digital transformation. In fact, subsequent chapters will highlight the technical challenges needed to build new architectures based on 5G, blockchain, cloud computing, and eventually quantum processing. The challenge then is to integrate business and technical IT staff via cultural assimilation and to strategically integrate advanced computing architectures. This fourth edition includes new topics such as the future of work that addresses the challenges of assimilating multiple generations of employees and how to establish working cultures that are more resilient and adaptive and can be configured as a platform driven by data assets.

Author : Carol Costley,Geoffrey C Elliott,Paul Gibbs
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446247945

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Doing Work Based Research by Carol Costley,Geoffrey C Elliott,Paul Gibbs Pdf

With the growth of work based learning and practitioner research this book leads the way by addressing key issues faced by ′insider-researchers′ - learners, practitioners and managers doing research projects in the organizations and communities in which they themselves work, or where they are already familiar with the setting. The authors explore the implications of these research contexts, and discuss approaches and methodologies that work based researchers might adopt, with a particular focus on ethics - one of the key concerns for those undertaking a research project of this type. This book is an authoritative and readable guide to the theory and practice of work based research. It is for anyone undertaking a research project based on work practice, including learners on postgraduate, undergraduate and doctoral programmes. Practitioners, managers and participants in work based courses or modules in education, healthcare and business management, will find it particularly useful.

Author : Meinolf Dierkes,Ariane Berthoin Antal,John Child,Ikujiro Nonaka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198295820

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Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge by Meinolf Dierkes,Ariane Berthoin Antal,John Child,Ikujiro Nonaka Pdf

This is an overview of how the concept of organisational learning emerged, how it has been used and debated, and where it may be going.

Author : Joop Swieringa,André F. M. Wierdsma
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X002219071

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Becoming a Learning Organization by Joop Swieringa,André F. M. Wierdsma Pdf

Author : Malcolm S. Knowles
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015011546648

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Using Learning Contracts by Malcolm S. Knowles Pdf

A practical, proven method for engaging adult learners Adding accountability to the learning process has been shown to engage students more deeply and get them invested in their own outcomes. Using Learning Contracts provides practical guidance on implementation in the classroom or corporate setting, helping instructors individualize and add structure to the learning experience. With real-world tips and expert advice from a leader in adult learning, this guide is an invaluable resource packed with insight on using learning contracts effectively.

Author : Paul Kearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317693123

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Organizational Learning and Development by Paul Kearns Pdf

It is now widely accepted that organizational maturity is dependent on being able to reorganize on a continuous basis and learn faster and more effectively than your competitors. Organizations that want to be sure they are competing at the highest level need clear indicators that their organizational learning and development capability is fully functional. This new book by Paul Kearns focuses on the need for an evidence-based approach to learning and development, bringing together the author’s extensive knowledge of HRM and organizational learning with new developments in the field. The book demonstrates how evidence evaluation can improve professionalism in organizational design and development, showing that this approach can create value not just for shareholders, but for employees and society as a whole. Organizational Learning and Development: From an Evidence Base is the perfect book for postgraduate students studying on evidence-based HRM courses and for the reflective learning and development practitioner.

Author : Laycock, Mike,Stephenson, John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136351358

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Using Learning Contracts in Higher Education by Laycock, Mike,Stephenson, John Pdf

An introduction to learning contracts, a new concept in education which encourages learners to plan, monitor and review their progress. The contributors to this volume explain how learning contracts are being used in a number of UK universities.