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An Artful Learning Framework for organisations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Glenys Drew
Glenys Drew*
Affiliation:
Human Resource Department, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD, Australia
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Abstract

This paper proposes an Artful Learning Framework as an organisational development initiative. The framework is designed to assist people in organisations seeking higher levels of engagement in their strategic and operational endeavours, such as navigating change. The Artful Learning Framework offers three strategies as potential artful learning events designed to help people in organisations engage with each other creatively to achieve their organisational and professional goals. The Artful Learning Wave Trajectory model (Kerr 2006) forms a conceptual antecedent for the Artful Learning Framework. The Framework's strategies align with the relevant literature on organisational learning and, in particular, a proposition of Kerr (2006) who identifies a suite of skills, capacities and capabilities that are important in organisations. The notion of the wave, with the effect of ‘pausing and gathering’ to consider amidst the inevitable ambiguity and turbulence offor-ward movement, is invoked as a metaphor for the elements of the Framework which support its strategies. The paper will be of interest to individuals and groups that are committed to profound learning and capability building for the benefit of themselves, their teams and the organisations in which they work.

Keywords

reflectionengagementorganisationsartful learningmanagementchange
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 14 , Issue 5 , November 2008 , pp. 504 - 520
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2008

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