Implications of organizational and individual learning for effective change management in education - an exploratory study of management practices in elementary schools in England and Finland

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 169-176

  Cicmil, Svetlana ^a   Kekäle, Tauno ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Change management; Finland; Organizational learning; Quality management; Schools; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986098739     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665629710169639     Document Type: Article

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