Looks back at developments in the European business environment over the last ten years. Details some of the rapid changes, e.g. in use of electronic information systems. Also describes the introduction of advanced groupware systems and the differences in application across ational boundaries....

Suggests that, in the current business environment, job security is not possible, nor is it desirable, since it limits opportunities. Outlines a framework for training and development which, on the one hand, maximizes the contribution employees can make to the company and, on the other, enables...

Suggests that there are many dilemmas facing the aspiring learning organization and true commitment to its principles is a way of integrating the false dichotomy of “concern for the task” versus “concern for the people”. Each organization’s journey in learning endeavour will be...

Describes how environmental training is increasingly being recognized as a crucial element of any corporate, environmental strategy. In turn, corporate strategies will be an essential component to the achievement of sustainable development. But how do companies respond to the need to change the...

Looks at the sequel to the article about running negotiating workshops for managers. Explains relevant theory and the practice of negotiations. Issues include the context of negotiations, offers and counter‐offers, avoidance of deadlock, the use of third parties and “back channels”,...

Discusses the organizational culture appropriate to new forms of “employability” as being characterized by its success in challenging and empowering its staff, motivating them, and even satisfying their needs for belongingness in today’s downsizing environment. These characteristics...

Corporate culture is essential to the success of any organization. Because employees will ultimately determine the productivity and profitability of the company, the corporate culture has to focus on employees’ participation and identification with the company’s goals. Leaders and management...

This article explores the challenge of getting people to willingly share knowledge skills and experience, so that their organisations may gain leverage in their collective intelligence. It does so by addressing links between knowledge management and organisational learning to increase the speed...

Examines the response of a utilities company (UtilityCo) to the commercial pressures associated with privatisation and a requirement for it to genuinely change employee expectations about the future ways in which the company would need to operate. It describes a cultural change programme centred...

Four main types of learning pattern are identified: solo problem solving, collaboration, modelling and other participant observation, and the skills involved in coping with each are suggested. The issues of distress and joy in learning, and how distress can be reduced and joy enhanced, are...