Rethinking Strategic Learning
Rethinking Strategic Learning

Author: Russ Vince

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-04-22

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1134419767

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Russ Vince examines learning as both a social and a strategic process, invariably linked to emotions and politics that are mobilized by attempts at learning and organizing. He makes a substantial contribution to theories of organizational learning and develops new ideas about critical reflection and collective leadership. The author outlines a critical perspective on HRD, arguing that staff responsible for learning and change in organizations have put too much effort into the development of individuals and not enough into understanding and engaging with organizational dynamics that limit and shape individuals' opportunities and abilities to learn and change. HRD is explained as an intervention within a political system and practice of management and leadership, with all the difficulties and contradictions that attempting to manage and to lead are likely to contain and reveal. This means that the focus of HRD is on action, on developing the capacity to act, on generating credibility through action, and on influencing and working with others in situations loaded with emotion and politics.

Rethinking Strategy
Rethinking Strategy

Author: Steve Tighe

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-04-22

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0730368335

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Seize opportunity from uncertainty What if you could use strategy to turn market volatility to your competitive advantage? Rethinking Strategy shows you how to anticipate and benefit from emerging market shifts and free your organisation from a cycle of disruption and response. In this ground-breaking book, author and strategist Steve Tighe helps you use scenarios to envisage what your industry and organisation could look like in the future and prepare for what’s to come. Through detailed case studies and practical tools, this guide reveals how to make strategy development your organisation’s principal creative and learning activity. anticipate impending market shifts before they emerge slow down change by making the future familiar unlock the entrepreneurial talent that lies within your organisation mobilise an army of internal advocates to drive strategy execution embed foresight into your planning and innovation processes Have you ever wondered how some companies seem to always be ahead of the curve while others struggle to keep up in today’s ever-changing competitive environment? With Rethinking Strategy, you’ll learn how to make better decisions and thrive alongside increasing competition and uncertainty.

Rethinking Strategy
Rethinking Strategy

Author: Henk W Volberda

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001-01-09

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1446235769

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`Readers interest in an overview of important aspects of the strategy field will find this book a helpful volume to add to their shelves′ - Administrative Sciences Quarterly This is a new overview of the strategy field, with internationally renowned contributors summarizing the latest directions and developments in strategic management theory in the context of their theoretical roots in economics, organization theory, and systems theory. The contributors outline the most promising new directions on the basis of a systemic treatment of paradigms or schools of thought in strategy: redrawing firm boundaries, developing dynamic capabilities and discovering viable strategy configurations. The volume will be an invaluable companion to advanced courses in strategy and management, used as a reader alongside case material and field studies. As well as providing a summary and evaluation of the different schools of thought in strategy, the volume offers a synthesis of the American and European approaches.

Rethinking Strategic Management
Rethinking Strategic Management

Author: Thomas Wunder

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-06

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 3030060144

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This book offers innovative ideas and frameworks for sustainable strategizing to advance business by scaling-up its positive impact, which is so urgently needed at this time in the 21st century. It shows practitioners how to effectively deal with socio-ecological systems’ disruptions to their operating environments and play an active role in transforming markets toward a sustainable future. In short, the book demonstrates how to make business sense of sustainability, highlighting new approaches and examples that translate sustainability into strategy and action. The ultimate goal is to provide a path toward a thriving future for both business and society. This book was written for strategy practitioners and decision makers who want to understand why sustainable strategizing is important in today’s business world and are seeking actionable business knowledge they can apply in their companies. It was also written for students of management and can be used as a supplemental text to support traditional graduate and undergraduate management courses.

Rethinking Strategic HR
Rethinking Strategic HR

Author: John Sullivan

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Published: 2005-02-28

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780808011002

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The primary goal of this book is to show you new ways to improve the business impact of your HR function by up to 25 percent. Because the goal is so high, The approaches that permeate this book are aggressive ones that are designed to make you rethink everything you do in HR. Authored by one of the industry's most respected thinkers, Rethinking Strategic HR is a forward-thinking look at building a smarter, more powerful HR strategy in any organization. Throwing out the old, conventional approaches, this provocative book provides a hard-hitting guide to 21st century HR strategy that will challenge you to think in bold, new ways. From critiques of traditional practices to specific day-to-day steps to strategic thinking, you'll get a new perspective on HR including: A clear definition of what is and what is not strategic the five distinct levels of contribution that HR can make A list of the most-used HR department strategies Tools for assessing your own strategic level A chart on how to make 'fact-based' decisions How HR routinely 'under-costs' its decisions How to make a strategic case to your CFO and more!

Learning to Succeed
Learning to Succeed

Author: Thomas Nelson

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0814434142

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Learn why rethinking corporate education in a world of constant change is crucial to establishing a foundation for long-term business success. Frequent market shifts...The rapid pace of technological change...We're all familiar with the old saying, "the only constant is change," but this has never been as true for business as it is today--nor have the penalties for companies who fail to learn and adapt been as high. Learning to Succeed insists that an integrated model for corporate education--one that links development programs with strategic goals--is critical to building agile and resilient learning organizations that will survive in our fast-evolving business landscape. Companies need to: continually assess where they need to go in relation to where they are now use educational training to bridge the gap work on strategic plans and action projects tied to key objectives design new education initiatives to advance concrete corporate goals Learning is reinforced and ROI is optimized. For companies ready to embrace what it means to be a learning organization, to welcome the CLO to the C-Suite, to weave strategy and learning tightly and continuously into the fabric of their businesses, the opportunities are limitless. Complete with practical guidelines and illuminating case studies, Learning to Succeed puts them on the path to long-term success.

Rethinking Faculty Work
Rethinking Faculty Work

Author: Judith M. Gappa

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Shows how changes in higher education are transforming the careers of faculty, and provides a model that makes it possible for all faculty to be in a position to do their best.

Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age
Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age

Author: Rhona Sharpe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-02

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1136973877

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Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age addresses the complex and diverse experiences of learners in a world embedded with digital technologies. The text combines first-hand accounts from learners with extensive research and analysis, including a developmental model for effective e-learning, and a wide range of strategies that digitally-connected learners are using to fit learning into their lives. A companion to Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age (2007), this book focuses on how learners’ experiences of learning are changing and raises important challenges to the educational status quo. Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age: moves beyond stereotypes of the "net generation" to explore the diversity of e-learning experiences today analyses learners' experiences holistically, across the many technologies and learning opportunities they encounter reveals digital-age learners as creative actors and networkers in their own right, who make strategic choices about their use of digital applications and learning approaches. Today’s learners are active participants in their learning experiences and are shaping their own educational environments. Professors, learning practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers will find Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age invaluable for understanding the learning experience, and shaping their own responses.

Rethinking School-University Partnerships
Rethinking School-University Partnerships

Author: Prentice T. Chandler

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2021-05-01

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 1648025285

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Rethinking School-University Partnerships: A New Way Forward provides educational leaders in K-12 schools and colleges of education with insight, advice, and direction into the task of creating partnerships. In current times, colleges of education and local school districts need each other like never before. School districts struggle with pipeline, recruitment, and retention issues. Colleges of education face declining enrollment and a shifting educational landscape that fundamentally changes the way that teachers are trained and what local school districts expect their teachers to be able to do. It is with these overlapping constraints and converging interests that partnerships emerge as a foundational strategy for strengthening the education of our teachers. With nearly 80 contributors from 16 states (and Jamaica) representing 39 educational institutions, the partnerships described in this book are different from the ways in which colleges of education and school districts have traditionally worked with one another. In the past, these loose relationships centered primarily on student teaching and/or field experience placements. In this arrangement, the relationship was directed towards ensuring that the local schools were amenable to hosting students from the college of education so that the student/candidate could complete the requirements to earn a teaching license. In our view, this paradigm needs to be enlarged and shifted.