Cultivating Learning within Projects

by A. Sense

Overview

This book offers a fresh perspective on how to cultivate learning within a project environment. It provides a framework to facilitate project practitioners' systematic reflection on their learning activities and to help them build a project learning practice. Combining theory and data, it will appeal to a wide academic and practitioner audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349282746
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/15/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ANDREW SENSE is an academic whose primary research interest involves investigating and explaining social phenomenon in the practice world of project management. Complementing his academic qualifications and expertise in this area, he has many years of industry experience in senior management and project management roles in Australian manufacturing industry.

Table of Contents

Introduction Conceptualizing learning within a project Sociological perspectives and learning in projects Cognitive style Learning relationships and pyramid of authority Knowledge management and situational context The project learning opportunity: where to now?

Editorial Reviews

' there are some very important and timely messages in this text, underpinned by rigorous research activity, and they are articulated in a precise and meticulous manner by an author who is an undoubted leader in his subject I would unreservedly commend this book to all academics with an interest in the area.' Steve Leybourne, International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

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