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The origins and growth of action learning
- Title
- The origins and growth of action learning / Reginald W. Revans.
- Author
- Revans, Reginald W., 1907-2003.
- Publication
- Lund [Sweden] : Studentlitteratur, ©1982.
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- Description
- xi, 846 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [818]-819.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Author's preface -- Ch. 2. A biography of action learning -- Ch. 3. The overture to 1945 -- Ch. 4. The entry of girls into the nursing profession -- Ch. 5. A staff college for the mining industry -- Ch. 6. Group factors in mining accidents -- Ch. 7. A consortium of pitmen -- Ch. 8. The contribution of the University to management education -- Ch. 9. The analysis of industrial behaviour -- Ch. 10. How much can- or should-a man sell? -- Ch. 11. Management and the scientific method -- Ch. 12. Is work worthwhile? -- Ch. 13. The hospital as an organism -- Ch. 14. What management expects of the internal auditor -- Ch. 15. The education of managers -- Ch. 16. Industry and technical education -- Ch. 17. Myths of decentralisation -- Ch. 18. Bigness and change -- Ch. 19. The bible as appointed to be read by industry -- Ch. 20. Managers, men and the art of listening -- Ch. 21. Involvement in school -- Ch. 22. Report of senior research fellow -- Ch. 23. The hospital internal communication project -- Ch. 24. Operational research and hospital administration -- Ch. 25. Action learning takes a health cure -- Ch. 26. The enterprise as a learning system -- Ch. 27. Project "Management efficiency" -- Ch. 28. Alienation and resistance -- Ch. 29. Values and enterprise as a subject for research -- Ch. 30. The managerial alphabet -- Ch. 31. The choice of action learning projects, clients and fellows -- Ch. 32. The theory and practice of action learning -- Ch. 33. The "Nile" project -- Ch. 34. Seminars for top management -- Ch. 35. The anatomy of achievement -- Ch. 36. On establishing a masters's programme in management studies -- Ch. 38. Management as creativity and learning -- Ch. 39. Management education in a turbulent society -- Ch. 40. The immemorial precursor: action learning past & present -- Ch. 41. Worker participation as action learning -- Ch. 42. A vocabulary of managerial debate -- Ch. 43. The teaching company -- Ch. 44. The assumptions of managerial mutual development -- Ch. 45. The nature of action learning -- Ch. 46. Action learning and the nature of knowledge -- Ch. 47. Action learning: its role in manpower planning -- Ch. 48. A contribution to action learning from Japan -- Ch. 49. Management, productivity and risk -- the way ahead -- Ch. 50. The psychology of the deliberated random -- Ch. 51. Action learning and epistemology -- Ch. 52. An assessment of adolescent attitudes.
- ISBN
- 9144990715
- 9789144990712
- 3885980266
- 9783885980261
- 0862380200
- 9780862380205
- LCCN
- ZBWT00132768
- OCLC
- ocm09206386
- 9206386
- SCSB-86692
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library