there are two types of change agents, the first type of change agents are the ones who emphasis on providiving pre-determined set of solutions for an organizational development. Whereas, second type of change agents ephasis on learning and mutual understanding with the stakeholders in development decisions. Ackoff strongly suggested the importance of creating a vision in order to perform successful change. He said, “The thing that leaders do that managers don’t, is articulating an inspiring vision
Annotated bibliography Aküzüm, C. 2014, "Knowledge Inertia and Organizational Learning as the Explanation of Organizational Performance", Educational Research and Reviews, vol. 9, no. 21, pp. 1143-1155. The author Dr Aküzüm Cemal is head of the research department in the Dicle University, faculty of education in Turkey. This journal highlights the importance of organisation that properly manage their knowledge and the benefits comes with it. The author use the term “knowledge inertia” explaining
Literature Synthesis - contrasting action learning with critical action learning Introduction Although the founder of action learning Revans (1981) did not give a definition of action learning, from the way he described it and applied it across a number of organizations, Pedler (1997) defines action learning as a process whereby a group of individuals drawn from different situations and confronted with individual problems meet together regularly to help each other learn by sharing their experiences
impact of goal have elicited that managements adopt some form of goal oriented programs, for instance, management by objective (MBO), benchmarking, high-performance work practices, etc. While these studies have definitely highlighted the importance of goal-oriented learning and behavior in relation to employee performance, our study is a further step towards similar attempts to educe the exact reasons behind such correlations. We propose that managements adopt such goal oriented programs not just to motivate
development have been explained by different scholars to be of very importance to organizations. It is the responsibility of organizations to train and develop their staff so as to enhance effective performance and bring about positive outcomes in the organizations. Human resource development (HRD) is concerned with the provision of learning, development and training opportunities in order to improve individual, team and organizational performance. HRD is essentially a business-led approach to developing
to the improvement of skills and hence to learning how to perform specific tasks.” Yoder “Training is being defined as an act of increasing the knowledge and skill of an employee for doing a particular job. It is concerned with imparting specific skills for particular purposes. Training is aimed at learning a skill by a prescribed method of application of a technique.” Tripth “Training is the formal procedure which a company utilizes to facilitate learning so that the resultant behavior contributes
development makes a big change to the productivity of an organization. Organizational development is the use of organizational resources to improve efficiency and expand productivity. It can be used to solve problems within the organization or as a way to analysed a process and find a more efficient way of doing it. Implementing organizational development requires an investment of time and money. But when you understand its importance, you can justify the costs. In this case, Martin Abella tries to suggest
being served on online education buffets. Students are free to pile their plates high with the sciences, the arts, the languages, and countless other subjects due to the growing trend of distance learning courses offered through the Web. Teachers, however, are becoming more dissatisfied with distance learning methods and remain adamant about face to face courses; in response to the competition between online and face to face courses, discord has erupted among teachers and their students. Ellen Laird
creating knowledge through development that prompts organizational sustainability in the marketplace. Today the knowledge economy has gained dominance and the key factors for competitive advantage is knowledge and its acquisition and learning. The sustainable performance of organizational activities is considered to be the function of its impact on vital capital in the world. Adjusting between distinctive innovative assets to help Knowledge and learning exercises is a firm capacity in Knowledge based
A study " Reading difficulties in grade six learners and challenges faced by teachers in teaching reading" which conducted by Linda Mwanamukubi (2013) aimed to discover the factors that contribute to causing reading difficulties among the learners of grade six and the challenges faced by teachers in teaching reading. The sample contained 206 participants from 10 schools in Chadiza and Chipata districts of the Eastern province of Zambia by applying quantitative and qualitative research designs and