Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how business professionals learn both through sharing knowledge with others, and from their own direct experience. Design/methodology/approach – There are two contrasting approaches to knowledge management. One suggests that knowledge should...

Describes the experience of participants and staff on the European Management Teacher Programme, launched in January 1991 as a joint venture between the Management School at Lancaster University and Groupe ESC Lyon in response to the continuing shortage of trained faculty in European business...

Views about the nature and purpose of evaluation have developed quite dramatically over the last two decades. Unfortunately many peoples' expectations about what evaluation should be doing have not kept pace with these developments. In addition there has been a large amount of work carried out...

This article, arguing that a key feature in the success of Japanese companies is their ability to learn rapidly from their experiences, reviews some of the more important contributions to the theory of organisational learning. Additionally the author considers, from a practical point of view,...

The past few years have seen the emergence of a new technique of considerable generality into the personnel field. It is based on the Personal Construct Theory of the psychologist George Kelly and incorporates a wide range of approaches to the assessment and measurement of people.

Introduction The purpose of this monograph is to describe a practical process for the assessment of management development in organisations. This aim is achieved through the examination both of a framework for looking at management development in practice, and a specific procedure—the...