Team development via action learning

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 241-259

  Marquardt, Michael ^a   Seng, Ng Choon ^b   Goodson, Helen ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b World Institute for Action Learning   (Singapore)

^c GOODRICH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Action learning; Group norms; Team development; Teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951460434     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: 15523055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422310367810     Document Type: Article

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