Published in 1977, this is a detailed account of the results of controversial methods as they were applied in a major company, when twenty-one managers came together for eight months to grapple with important problems for the purpose of learning some of the skills required for senior management.
Published in 1977, this is a detailed account of the results of controversial methods as they were applied in a major company, when twenty-one managers came together for eight months to grapple with important problems for the purpose of learning some of the skills required for senior management. From their very different points of view, the course organisers, GECs own personnel specialists, and the managers involved, describe their experiences and discuss with unusual candour the effects on themselves as individuals and on their organisations. There is no attempt to gloss over the difficulties and the disappointments.
This is a book that will be read with attention and profit not just by personnel and management development specialists but by all managers seeking ways to improve business performance.
Part 1: The Action Learning Programme
1. Action Learning, Professor Reg
Revans
2. Programme Outline, David Casey
3. Programme Development, David
Pearce Part 2: Participants Experiences
4. The Project is Everything, Bill
Prince
5. Learning how to Learn, Peter Preston
6. This is the Way to Unlock
Resources, Don Howell
7. It Didnt Work for Me, David Carr
8. Now To Run a
Company, Colin Gaskell
9. Communications is the Key to Getting Commitment,
Barry Scott Part 3: Alp International and Dunchurch Industrial Staff College
10. The Challenge was Worth it, Ray Godsall
11. Dont Call me Teacher, Bob
Garratt
12. Alp is Learning Too, Jean Lawrence Part 4: The Impact of Action
Learning on GEC
13. Wed do it Again, Clem Jansen and Don Sinclair
14. You
Dont Need to be an Expert, Glyn Trollop
15. Its Opening Our Minds, Mike
Bett
16. Action Learning and the Company, Professor Tony Eccles.
David Casey, David Pearce