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Feedback Seeking Behavior: A Review of the Literature and Implications for HRD Practitioners [and] Invited Reaction: Comments on Madzar's Article.
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Madzar, Svjetlana; Morrison, Elizabeth Wolfe – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1995
Madzar reviews literature on feedback seeking in organizations, examining motivation, contextual influences, barriers, and particular feedback-seeking behavior of newcomers and groups. Morrison comments on some misrepresentations and confusions in the literature review. (SK)
Descriptors: Feedback, Industrial Psychology, Job Performance, Management Development
Management Training: An Impact Theory.
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Berardinelli, Paula K.; And Others – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1995
Four focus groups with 300 Fortune 500 managers and two panels of experts were used to build and verify a theory of the impact on management training on organizational performance. The theory suggests that such training design factors as needs assessment, coaching, and simulated practice have a greater impact on performance. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Management Development, Organizational Development, Outcomes of Education
Building Learning Organizations: The Individual-Culture Interaction [and] Invited Reaction and Final Word.
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Brooks, Ann K.; And Others – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1992
Interviews with managers caught between traditional organizational culture and a shift to "learning organizations" show that individual development is important to organizational change; efforts to change managers to fit a culture defined by top management may not succeed if the vision is not shared; and spiritual and moral dimensions of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Developmental Psychology, Feedback, Individual Development
Formal Developmental Relationships: A Survey of Organizational Practices. [and] Invited Reaction: Setting the Stage for Further Study of Developmental Relationships.
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Douglas, Christina A.; McCauley, Cynthia D.; Bierema, Laura L. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1999
Douglas and McCauley report on a survey of 246 managers about the management-development strategies used in their organizations. Results show that initiatives include mentoring, apprenticeships, coaching, and action learning. Bierema's reaction concurs in the need to widen the definition of relationships but suggests that methodological issues…
Descriptors: Adults, Apprenticeships, Employer Employee Relationship, Management Development