Unlearning at Work

Insights for Organizations

Makoto Matsuo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

89 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-16-3798-8 (ISBN)

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This book is to provide insights into the process of individual unlearning, which is little known in previous studies. This is the first book that described how employees should unlearn, i.e., abandon obsolete and outdated beliefs or routines to acquire new ones, at workplace. Updating old knowledge and skills to new one is crucial not only for organizations but also for individuals to survive in today’s competitive and turbulent environment. It provides readers with mechanisms by which personal factors, such as goal orientation, reflection, and critical reflection, and promotes employees’ unlearning under the influence of situational factors such as supervisors’ behaviors and promotion of the positions. Based on the findings by quantitative and qualitative analyses using questionnaire survey and interviews, this book is highly recommended to readers who are interested in higher-order learning process for self-change at work in the fields of organizational behavior and human resourcesdevelopment.

Makoto Matsuo is Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration at Hokkaido University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Management Learning from the University of Lancaster. His research interests include experiential learning, workplace learning, human resource development, and career management. His research papers were selected as ‘Outstanding Papers’ of European Journal of Marketing in 2002 and Journal of Workplace Learning in 2018.

Prefacde.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1 Research Framework.- Chapter 2 Goal Orientation, Critical Reflection, and Unlearning.- Chapter 3 Critical Reflection, Unlearning, and Engagement.- Chapter 4 Managers' Exploration Activities and Individual Unlearning.- Chapter 5 The Unlearning of Managerial Skills: A Qualitative Study of Executive Officers.- Chapter 6 Individual Unlearning Processes.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Business
Zusatzinfo	11 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 89 p. 11 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
Schlagworte	Ambidexterity • critical reflection • leaning goals • obsolete habits • outdated beliefs • unlearning
ISBN-10	981-16-3798-9 / 9811637989
ISBN-13	978-981-16-3798-8 / 9789811637988
Zustand	Neuware