Product Description: Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO® Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms...read more

Product Description: When times get tough, why is it that the training budget so often gets slashed first? And more important, how can you change this pattern so that your training budget is protected―no matter the economic or business climate? The Learning Advantage provides the answers to these questions through a series of case studies designed to help you change your organization's attitude toward learning by helping you make the clear link from learning to your company's bottom line...read more

Product Description: This text demonstrates how Action Learning (AL) can quickly and effectively be introduced, implemented, and sustained in any type or size of organization using six key components. It features useful business case examples that illustrate the power of AL in successfully developing leaders...read more

Product Description: This book presents a solid, research-based conceptual framework that demystifies organizational learning and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Using an integrative approach, authors Raanan Lipshitz, Victor Friedman and Micha Popper provide practitioners and researchers with tools for understanding organizational learning under real-world conditions...read more

Product Description: This volume follows the first book in the Harold Bridger Series, "Transitional Approach to Change". The chapters in the book cover a wide range of contributions that concentrate around four themes: transitional change in therapeutic communities, in working conferences for professional development or training, in organisation consulting with an emphasis on organizational learning, and in self studies of working systems in action...read more

Product Description: Chapters on strategy, practice, and technology demonstrate how to achieve immediate lasting results by encouraging curiosity and learning at all levels of the organization. Profiles of organizations (including General Motors, Home Depot, and WD-40 Company) using learning-focused approaches, accompany leading-edge research into how and why people best work together when learning as they work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract theory—the learning organization as an ideal—into hands-on implementation...read more

Product Description: Business-driven action learning addresses the need for more creative and accountable approaches to learning and earning demanded by the pace of change in business life. This volume shows how it is accomplished through detailed descriptions of how businesses have designed, facilitated and implemented the method...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the reasons for persistent differences in work practices both within and between industries. The authors found that the strategy that a firm chooses to follow often determines the kind of work practices it fosters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)