A 30-Year Collaboration of Victoria Marsick and Karen Watkins: Learning in the Workplace

Michael Beyerlein (), Khalil M. Dirani () and Lei Xie ()
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Michael Beyerlein: Texas A&M University
Khalil M. Dirani: Texas A&M University
Lei Xie: Texas A&M University

Chapter 50 in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers, 2017, pp 827-846 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A field in the social and organizational science grows in richness of perspective, methods, and tools, the same way a field in the hard sciences does: new ideas emerge from the rich conversation of the members. Sometimes, a rich flow of ideas emerges from a special subgroup, such as collaborative partnerships. This chapter focuses on such a partnership: the 30-year collaboration of doctors Victoria MarsickMarsick, V. and Karen WatkinsWatkins, K.. It is a story of discovering new ways to view learninglearning in the workplace, but it did not start with that focus. The content of our chapter is based on interviews with Marsick and Watkins, K.Watkins and with seven of their colleagues, who read much of their work and related material and interacted with them for several decades. Interviews included former students, colleagues, coauthors, and fellow board members for the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD)Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly ASTD) and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). Those individuals had known the two scholars 15–25 years.

Keywords: Collaboration; Informal and incidental learning; Learning organization; Human resource development; Performance; Learning; Organization development; Problem-solving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52878-6_98

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