Development and Learning in Organizations: Volume 21 Issue 5

Sorting out evaluation of learning and development: making it easier for ourselves

The purpose of this paper is to expose the errors of existing common evaluation frameworks such as Kirkpatrick and to suggest superior approaches.

Making organizational change stick: leadership reality checks

With organizations trying to compete on a global scale, they are constantly putting energy and resources into performance improvement and change initiatives. The purpose of this…

Organizational change – overcoming resistance by creating readiness

Despite a significant amount of academic research showing that failure to create and manage readiness for change, nonetheless, far too many organizational managers have failed to…

Do leaders learn from near death experiences? Ten years after …

The aim of this paper is to determine the degree to which a leader of a nonprofit organization changed over time after a near death experience.

Effective (linear) and emergent (nonlinear) mentoring: a practical context for practicing chaos

This paper aims to compare the characteristics of mentoring understood as a traditional linear feedback process aimed at effectiveness, with mentoring understood as a nonlinear…

Experiential learning – its place in in‐house education and training

Intense competition, rapid technological changes and modern aspects of management force any enterprise to put emphasis on their personnel and invest in their training and…

Learning at work through the 3Ps: Partnerships, projects and practice development

The paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Game on as trainers make learning fun: Virtual world extends the attention span

The paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Social identity is key to human resources development: Theory and implications for learning programs

The aims of this paper is to reviews the latest management development across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Are your executives committed to achieving your learning goals?: The key relationships between commitment, expectancy motivation and job satisfaction

The paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

What's on the web

An interview with Kevan Hall

A Practical Guide to Learning in the Workplace

Policy instruments for sustainability-oriented organizational learning

Learning organizations in construction

HRD 2007: Learning and Development Conference and Exhibition

An exploratory study of corporate universities in China

Reactions to skill assessment: the forgotten factor in explaining motivation to learn

Institutional evaluation and its influence on organizational learning

Editorial

Firing back: how great leaders rebound after career disasters

Edith Penrose and a learning-based perspective on the MNE and OLI

Diary

Learning strategies as predictors of transformational leadership: the case of non-profit managers

Organisational ecology and knowledge networks

Training transfer: the mediating role of perception of learning