Overview
Provides a state-of-the-art overview in the field of workplace- and organizational learning
Investigates new fields of practice and what has led up to these shifts
Explores how emerging fields link to the classic paradigms of learning
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
- developments in organizational learning
- developments in workplace learning
- search-and learning processes
- contemporary workplace learning
- sustainable learning dynamics in organizations
- knowledge sharing in organizations
- talent development in organizations
- co-creation and innovation in the workplace
- new vs classic fields of practice in organizational learning
About this book
The central assumption that guides this book is that research and practice about learning at the workplace has recently lost its critical edge. This book explores what has happened to workplace learning and organizational learning and studies what has replaced it. In addition, the book discusses to what extend there are reasons to revitalize it.
Today, themes such as ‘innovation’, ‘co-creation’ and ‘knowledge sharing’ seem to have become preferred and referred to as theoretical fields as well as fields of practice. In several chapters of this book it is argued that the critical power of learning could be regained by starting a new discussion of how these new fields of practice can be substantiated by topics such as learning arrangements, learning mechanisms, and learning strategies. Hence, the aim of this book is to both advance and recapture our knowledge of learning in today’s increasingly complex world of work and organizing.
The contributions in this work do so by revisiting classic research on workplace and organizational learning and discussing how insights from this body of literature evokes new meaning. It sets the stage for new agendas and rethinks current practices that are entangled in activities such as innovation, co-creation, knowledge sharing or other currently widespread fields of practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen is a certified psychologist, specialist and supervisor in work- and organizational psychology. He holds an associate professorship at Aarhus University, School of Education. He has recently published in journals like Sociology of Health and Illness, Studies in Continuing Education, and Journal of Workplace Learning. He has edited a number of books. Niels Christian recently received research funding from The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and The Independent Research Fund, Denmark. He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, Amsterdam University and Lancaster University. His research centers on implications in healthcare of arrangements aiming to streamline patient care and professional work by way of advanced technology. He is particularly interested in the practical effects of initiatives aiming to intensify patients' responsibility for their own care such as telecare, care robotics and self-monitoring. He finds inspiration in symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Maja Lotz is currently an advisor within the field of organizational learning and sustainability. She is a former associate professor of organizational learning at Aarhus University. She received a PhD in organizational sociology from Copenhagen Business School, has held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University and an Assistant Professorship at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. She investigates the day-to-day interactions that facilitate knowledge collaboration, learning and innovation in collaborative organizational settings. Her work has been published in Organization Studies, International Journal of Lifelong Education, and by Oxford Press, among others. She has also co-edited a book about employee driven innovation published by Macmillan Publishers Ltd. She has lead and participated in several research projects (national as well as international) focused on the effects of new organizational forms on the capability to learn, innovate and co-create.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Current Practices in Workplace and Organizational Learning
Book Subtitle: Revisiting the Classics and Advancing Knowledge
Editors: Bente Elkjaer, Maja Marie Lotz, Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85060-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85059-3Published: 01 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85062-3Published: 02 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85060-9Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Learning & Instruction