Management Learning Integrating Perspectives in Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

Management Learning introduces the context and history of management learning and offers a critical framework within which the key debates can be understood. The book also provides an incisive discussion of the values and purpose inherent in the practice and theory of management learning, and charts the diverse external factors influencing and directing the processes of learning. The volume concludes with a look forward towards the future reconstruction of the field.Management Learning introduces the context and history of management learning and offers a critical framework within which the key debates can be understood. The book also provides an incisive discussion of the values and purpose inherent in the practice and theory of management learning, and charts the diverse external factors influencing and directing the processes of learning. The volume concludes with a look forward towards the future reconstruction of the field.`There is a lot in this book for anyone who wants to take Management Learning seriously' - Organisations & People

`I feel confident that managers, academics and trainers will find Management Learning an in invaluable addition to their libraries Studies in the Education of AdultsIntroduction
PART ONE: MAKING SENSE OF MANAGEMENT LEARNING
From Management Education and Development to the Study of Management Learning - Stephen Fox
Research Traditions in Management Learning - Mark Easterby-Smith and Richard Thorpe
The Arena Thesis - John Burgoyne and Brad Jackson
Process Philosophy and Management Learning - Robert Chia
Cultivating `Foresight' in Management
Groups, Groupwork and Beyond - Richard Boot and Michael Reynolds
PART TWO: BEING CRITICAL
Problematical Premises, Presumptions, Presuppositionl³&