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LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE MATTER
edited by Prem Kumar (National Community Leadership Institute, Singapore) & Phil Ramsey (Massey University, New Zealand)
Learning and performing profoundly affect our results and actions. Yet getting the balance right is a challenge to individuals and organisations. While performing is about meeting the demands placed upon us, learning expands our capacity to meet future demands. Everyday successes and failures are shaped by the way we balance learning and performing. More than just actions, balance involves a set of values that are fundamental to the successful operation of organisations. These values are key dimensions around which organisational cultures form. Unfortunately, achieving balance is like a dance going wrong in organisations around the world: we have been following the same pattern for so long that we are now struggling to establish better ways of going about it.
This intriguing book is a collection of essays from leading consultants, practitioners and scholars offering practical approaches, fresh insights and strategies to proposed solutions for sustained organisational growth and competitive advantage. The book explains the nature of the learning and performance “dance” and its importance to organisations today, and is an indispensable resource for managing the dilemmas and tensions faced by individuals and organisations.
Contents:
- Foreword (D Ulrich)
- Introduction:
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Learning and Performance: Rethinking the Dance (P Ramsey)
- Learning's Place in Organisations:
- Short History of Learning (J S Brown & E S Gray)
- When Performance and Learning Are at Odds (S J Singer & A C Edmondson)
- The Work of KM Made Real (M Wheatley & M E Rogers)
- The Organisational Challenge:
- What Can Leaders Do? (M Darling & D Flanigan)
- Doggie Treats and the Core Group (A Kleiner)
- Essence of Strategy (A Karnani)
- Applications:
- Creating Consulting Partnerships (P Blyde)
- Exploring Performance vs Learning in Teams (D C Kayes)
- Evaluation by Means (P Ramsey et al.)
- Learning to Be an Expert (P Jarvis)
- Performance–Learning Dysfunctions:
- Workplace Bullying (A Needham)
- Perfectionism (D Ramsey & P Ramsey)
- Looking to the Future:
- Staying Ahead of Change (P Kumar)
Readership: Universities, business schools and public and private institutions
conducting executive programs, and in other fields of study. Libraries, private and public sector organisations, individuals, consultants, researchers, HRD/HRM directors/managers, teachers, policy-makers, etc.
“This excellent anthology by leading thinkers in organisations offers thoughtful insights on lessons about learning. They probe deeper into learning processes so that these processes can be understood, mapped, and replicated. The lessons from these essays will help managers manage change and leaders learn … As these and other lessons of learning move from principles to practices, the disciplines of learning become less a fad and event and more a pattern and on going experience. They are assimilated into how people and organisations work to produce improved products and services … This volume is a good push along the learning journey.”
Extract from Foreword by Professor Dave Ulrich
University of Michigan and Partner, The RBL Group |
| 300pp (approx.) |
Pub. date: Scheduled Summer 2008 |
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