Sunday, January 25, 2009

MGMT notes 1.26.09

Notes for Management 1-26
Four Styles of Managerial Learning
The experiential Learning model (influenced by Kurt Lewin (1940s))
edited from original found at http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/theory/figures/Image3.gif

LSI : Learning style Inventory 

most psychs say that the concrete/abstract dimension is where cognitive growth/learning occurs. 

Goldstein and Scheerer suggest that greater abstractness results in development of: 
  1. detach ego from world/ourselves
  2. assume mental set
  3. account for and verbalize events
  4. shift perspective
  5. think of many things at once
  6. grasp ideas as a whole and in parts
  7. abstract common props reflectively?
  8. plan ahead
in psychoanalytic theory - need for concrete childlike perspective in creative process= regression in service of the ego


Converger AC/AE - practical app of ideas - good at mc w/ one answer - engineers - gold
Diverger CE/RO-imaginative/perspective - brainstorming- arts/humanities/psych- blue
Assimilator AC/RO - theoretical models -basic sciences - R&D -  green 
Accommodator CE/AE - risk taker -business, mktg -  orange

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Tacit Learning 
hunches, intuition, emotions, values, beliefs
nonintellectual qualities
Japanese - more tacit 
American - more explicit
Tall oaks like activities - unless you take time to regroup, debrief, incorporate it into your work-  it's just a fun day in the woods
cultivate the sharing of tacit knowledge in your O 
  • watch 
  • create environment of trust, respect, commitment
  • let people learn by doing 
  • in any training exercise, allow for reflection and interpersonal exchange

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