Designing ‘Reality’ into Management Learning Events I: Towards Some Working Models
Abstract
The need for management training, development and educational activities to be grounded in practical experience and real life situations has become a loud and frequently heard cry in current debate on how to improve the efficacy of such activities. Not the least vociferous in this rallying call have been, for example, proponents of what have come to be known as ‘Action Learning Programmes’. What is being echoed are comments, by the participants in managerial learning events, of the kind ‘… that sounds fine, but the reality is …’, ‘…in reality things just aren't like that…’,‘… playing with Lego bricks is fun … but what's it got to do with my job?…’,‘… but when I get back to the real world … ’, etc. Such statements reveal a feeling that, in entering a learning event, reality has somehow been left behind.
Citation
Binstead, D. and Stuart, R. (1979), "Designing ‘Reality’ into Management Learning Events I: Towards Some Working Models", Personnel Review, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 12-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055385
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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