Quantity versus quality in project-based learning practices
By: ANNE, Keegan
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Contributor(s): TURNER, J. Rodney.
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ArticlePublisher: 2001Subject(s): Centralization | Penalidade Administrativa | Organizational Learning | Projects | Reflection | TimeManagement Learning 32, 1, p. 77-98Abstract: In the midst of the turbulence wrought by the global economy, it has become common to see projects as an essential medium for achieving change. However, project-based learning practices - as a subset of organizational learning practices - have not kept pace with this developmet. To explore this concern, we have carried out a study on practices adopted by organizations for learning through projects involving nineteen companies from across Europe and from a range of different industries. We use the concepts of variation, selection ad retention in organizational learning to analyze our findings and report the challenges faced by project-based organizations in each of the areas highlighted. We conclude that time pressure,s centralization and deferral are the key characteristics of learning in project-based firms and that these impede project-based memebers in learning form and through projects
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In the midst of the turbulence wrought by the global economy, it has become common to see projects as an essential medium for achieving change. However, project-based learning practices - as a subset of organizational learning practices - have not kept pace with this developmet. To explore this concern, we have carried out a study on practices adopted by organizations for learning through projects involving nineteen companies from across Europe and from a range of different industries. We use the concepts of variation, selection ad retention in organizational learning to analyze our findings and report the challenges faced by project-based organizations in each of the areas highlighted. We conclude that time pressure,s centralization and deferral are the key characteristics of learning in project-based firms and that these impede project-based memebers in learning form and through projects
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