Development and Learning in Organizations: Volume 22 Issue 3

Are “skills” all there is to learning in organizations? The case for a broader framework

The purpose of this paper is to provide an antidote to a narrow focus on skills and to show how learning for organizational development needs a broader framework.

Work and depression in economic organizations: the need for action

The purpose of this paper is to raise concerns about how depression in the work place is too often overlooked and to identify what needs to be done to benefit individuals and…

Founders, leaders, and organizational life cycles: the choice is easy – learn or fail!

The purpose of this article is to provide executives and other organizational leaders with a six‐stage organizational life cycle and its components at each stage.

Life as an entrepreneur: leadership and learning

The purpose of this paper is to provide experienced insights to help entrepreneurs to maximise organisational change and achieve long term business growth and success.

Information systems development: where does knowledge lie and how does learning occur?

The purpose of this paper is to delineate a road map for development and learning in organizations using information systems as a key trigger.

Extended scenario role‐playing: cumulative learning for supply chain participants

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of a staged cumulative learning mechanism as part of a role‐play model for the teaching of supply chain concepts.

Alternative paths to leadership: New models of development training

Reviews non‐traditional and current approaches to leadership development, in order to highlight the importance of leadership training and to offer ways around the typical…

Becoming an ecologically sustainable organization: The importance of learning

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Team‐based production in the Swedish manufacturing industry: Creating favorable learning conditions

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Is training worth it?: How to evaluate learning against other investments

Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

Editorial

Building firm capabilities through learning: the role of the alliance learning process in alliance capability and firm-level alliance success