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Action Learning Questions: Making Sense of Organizational Chaos

Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research

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Title Action Learning Questions: Making Sense of Organizational Chaos
 
Creator Bowerman, Jennifer; Edmonton, AB
Hale, Richard; Bristol, England
 
Subject Economics
Action Learning, Organization Development, The Learning Organization, Chaordic Organizations
 
Description This article uses a dialogic and questioning approach between the two authors, to explore how action learning questioning as a process has been used to create transformation and capability in some organizations impacted by massive change. Action Learning, based on the original work of Reg Revans, is a question driven approach enabling complex business issues to be explored through action and reflection with fellow set members. The authors narrate how such an approach has been used as the foundation for programs of professional development qualifications, with the assistance of some universities willing to forego their usual practice of teaching and testing concepts and theories, acknowledging that these new business development programs can succeed in bringing about results, resilience and competence in workforces battered by change fatigue and chaos. Too often organizational development concepts have become dry theoretical concepts in text books. This exchange demonstrates how they can come to life through questioning, reflective action and organizational support using evidence from major programs now underway in government and commercial sectors in the UK. The authors demonstrate how Action Learning Questioning based initiatives have the capacity to build social capital, and generate effective learning in complex and rapidly changing business and organizational environments.  It concludes with suggestions for the future.
 
Publisher Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
 
Date 2016-12-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/143
10.15549/jeecar.v3i2.143
 
Source Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR); Vol 3, No 2 (2016): Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research; 8
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/143/pdf
 
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