information and honed skills in analysis is essential but inadequate in managerial learning. More importantly, managerial learning … means learning to take effective action; learning to acquire the “soft skills”, such as leadership, decision making …, teamworking, negotiations, and communications. Action learning is one approach to management growth and development, which induces …

States that two goal orientations may be held by individuals: a performance goal and a learning goal (Ames and Archer …, 1988; Dweck and Leggett, 1988). The much‐discussed learning organisation requires individuals either to possess or to … develop a learning orientation. Leadership theorists (Bass, 1985; Burns, 1978) have identified characteristics of leadership …

learning. It seeks to identify the process through which team learning is developed, the factors that affect organizational … learning and its influences on organizational effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – Two groups of samples from a … defensive dynamics. Learning begins with the unlearning of old habits by encouraging new thinking patterns through rigorous …

Synthesizes the ideas of the “transformational change” and “learning organization” literature. The concept of the … action learning organization is presented as a bridge between learning and transformation as it involves collaborative … questioning by organizational members of their own actions. Discusses the characteristics of an action learning organization in …

that learning is now the keystone to bringing about change at both the personal and organizational levels. This article … examines the role which system‐level leaders in public sector organizations play in creating learning organizations. It … discusses tools which system leaders may use to establish conditions that support development of a learning organization.  …

Examines the impact of level and gender on the learning of participants who attended a one‐ week leadership education …, significantly more learning was reported by executives than managers and by women executives than women managers. Uses a combination … implications for training and practice including the need for institutionally‐sponsored mentoring programmes linked with gender …