Rethinking Workplace Learning and Development

Rethinking Business and Management series

Karen E. Watkins, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration and Policy, University of Georgia and Victoria J. Marsick, Department of Adult and Organizational Leadership, Teachers College, Columbia University, US

Cognizant of the complexity and uncertainty that characterizes our post-pandemic world, this book highlights how learning and development needs to be wired into the culture of a business. Karen E. Watkins and Victoria J. Marsick extend the vision of learning and development to embrace a full range of learning interventions, considering what it means to change the culture of an organization into a learning-rich environment.

‘To say this must-read book is timely is an understatement. Learning and development is now at the pinnacle of any list of critically important workplace issues. There are no better guides than Karen Watkins and Victoria Marsick for the urgent and necessary journey to rethink workplace learning and development in these complex and uncertain times.’
– Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Minnesota, US

‘Watkins and Marsick, along with their various collaborators, provide in their most recent and prescient text, a blueprint for understanding critical learning challenges in today’s workplace. We cannot simply presume the learning challenges they discuss will occur, the challenges are here upon us now, and much depends on them being addressed. The authors wisely make use of their past extensive writings on workplace learning as a basis for showing the way forward now. An important contribution to the workplace learning and development literature.’
– Ronald L. Jacobs, University of Illinois, US