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A study of informal learning in the context of managerial decision -making /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A study of informal learning in the context of managerial decision -making // Andrew Richard Walker.
Author:	Walker, Andrew Richard,
Description:	1 electronic resource (290 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	Adult education. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3014895
ISBN:	9780493255682

A study of informal learning in the context of managerial decision -making /
Walker, Andrew Richard,

A study of informal learning in the context of managerial decision -making /Andrew Richard Walker. - 1 electronic resource (290 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A.

This case study is based on 51 critical incidents of managerial decision making in one pharmaceutical company. The purpose of the study was to acquire greater insight into how managers acquire informal learning while they are involved in making decisions. Through better understanding of the inter-related processes of thinking and action by which learning and decision-making occur, opportunities were found for the organization to better support and facilitate such learning in the future. The first research question (What were the informal learning strategies that managers deployed during the decision-making process?) highlighted an array of innovative but subconscious learning strategies and activities. In response to the second research question (What processes were taking place during informal learning?) there was also a difference in emphasis between the stages of learning in a personal decision and a policy decision. The third research question (What organizational factors facilitated or impeded the content and process of individual learning?) revealed the importance of context to learning. Organizational experiences were formational for new and experienced managers, alike. Female participants found they had more to learn about how to gain confidence and ensure that senior management listened to them. The findings were examined using a model of reflective learning from experience, both intentional and incidental. The model incorporates three stages of learning: preparation, experience and reflective processes. Managers' decisions ranged the spectrum from serious micro, individual decisions to broader wider impacting macro decisions primarily on the deployment of corporate resources. Decisions were made in the context of a changing market sector as hospitals became units within large centralized purchasing structures. Managers were clearly involved informally in self-directed learning activities that helped them to make a choice and substantiate their case. Raising awareness of the subconscious learning process and its input to the more apparent decision-making process provides benefits for practitioners in the field of HRD, particularly those involved in executive coaching, action learning and team building. Further learning-leading to better quality decisions-could be achieved by understanding the learning process itself to make the organization more of a natural learning environment. Learning can be facilitated through an active attempt to enable the manager to reflect on his or her thinking about the decision to create potential learning. By encouraging individuals to review the rational and non-rational constituents of important decisions, the HRD practitioner can enable the individual to surface and make meaning of past learning, and review how it may be applied to the new situation.

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ISBN: 9780493255682Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Adult education.
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Informal learning

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