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Learning from work : designing organizations for learning and communication
- Title
- Learning from work : designing organizations for learning and communication / Anne Beamish.
- Author
- Beamish, Anne, 1954-
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, c2008.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JBE 08-620 | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 166 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "Based on Creating communities of practice, a dissertation for the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning at MIT"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Background. The problem. Design. Identifying obstacles -- Automobile dealerships--past and present. History of automobile dealerships. Automobile dealerships today -- Work practice. Vignette I: Service Department. Vignette II: Sales Department. The work of dealership employees -- Obstacles to learning and communication. The physical environment. The medium. Content: learning and communication. The individual. Cultural and social environment. Economic and work environment -- Synthesis and evaluation. Obstacles to learning and communication. Designing solutions -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JBE 08-620
- ISBN
- 9780804757157 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804757151 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804757164 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 080475716X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007031386
- OCLC
- 163625236
- Author
- Beamish, Anne, 1954-
- Title
- Learning from work : designing organizations for learning and communication / Anne Beamish.
- Imprint
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-162) and index.
- Added Author
- Beamish, Anne, 1954- Creating communitites of practice.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 08-620