Educators and employers alike have made repeated calls for developing graduates who are active, interdependent, and independent learners. While the use of business case studies has been a frequently promoted method for achieving this objective, there is a dearth of information about how best to...

Learning is a complex process that not only merely involves gathering of information or knowledge but also depicts the process of which knowledge is accumulated. The process of learning is not about accumulation of material of learning but involves the process of changing conceptions.  In this...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine and summarize the findings of a comparative survey carried out to assess how learning outcomes acquired non‐formally or informally are validated and recognized. Owing to limitations of the study, this paper just seeks to consider the challenges that...

Argues that the ways in which managers learn experientially are unnecessarily painful and will remain so without significant change in the shape and patterning of organizations and the wider socioeconomic infrastructure. First identifies distinct sets of experiential learning patterns from...

Purpose The Covid-19 crisis has inflicted a disruptive impact on the conventional institutional format of architecture studio pedagogy. As a result, there is a critical suddenness for an alternative approach to ensure continuity. The research pursues is to pursue a multidisciplinary study with a...

Management development (MD) is defined as the system of personnel practices intended to ensure that an organization can rely on timely availability of qualified and motivated employees. The article reports on a survey of 92 Dutch companies concerning their MD policy and practice. Results...

Uses multiple regression to highlight the key design variables underpinning development centre effectiveness. Finds third‐generation designs which provide exercise realism, participant involvement and concerted development planning on the centre to be significantly more effective. Proposes...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 An overview of perspectives of transformational leadership -- Chapter 3 Can learning style contribute to a more understanding of the intervention? -- Chapter 4 Reflection on the value of using longitudinal mixed method -- Chapter 5 Pre-intervention data --...

Discusses the challenges facing HR departments in harnessing the potential of work‐based management development programmes. The article considers the research carried out by Mumford on executive learning styles and considers this in the context of the development of life‐long learning skills...