Productive Reflection at Work

This book is an accessible entry point into the theory and practice of work reflection for students and practitioners. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, it covers management, education, organizational psychology and sociology, drawing on examples from Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia.It traces reflection at work from an emphasis on training, through a focus on how organizations learn, to a concern with the necessary learning groups to operate effectively. It emphasizes productivity combined with satisfying lived experience of work life and points the way to a new collective focus on learning at work.

'Productive Reflection at Work is a magnificent book that opens up new analytical avenues regarding the collective dimension of reflection at work' - Elena Bou Business School (URL) Barcelona Management Learning , 'Productive Reflection at Work is a magnificent book that opens up new analytical avenues regarding the collective dimension of reflection at work' - Elena Bou Business School (URL) Barcelona Management Learning 'Productive Reflection at Work is a major addition to the literature on reflection at work. The focus of the book is on the idea that reflection is what connects learning and work. The Editors emphasize the importance of reflecting together in the workplace, and they highlight the learning that can occur when productivity and interpersonal engagement are explicitly linked. The book provides the foundations for future thinking about the organization of reflection, and especially helps to transform the current over-emphasis on individuals' ability to reflect with clear and comprehensive arguments for collective reflection. This book is essential reading for all scholars and practitioners with an interest in learning and work. It moves across disciplines, drawing together a fascinating and important compilation of views on collective and organizational reflection. David Boud, Peter Cressey and Peter Docherty are leading the development of a new idea - productive reflection - and they have generated a collection of chapters to demonstrate its importance and value. This volume is a significant and welcome contribution to our understanding of how reflection can be embedded into work organizations.' - Russ Vince, Professor of Organizational Behaviour and HRM, the University of Hull, UK

David Boud is Professor of Adult Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney. He is widely published in the areas of adult, higher and professional education. Peter Cressey is a Reader in Sociology in the Department of Social and Policy science at the University of Bath. He has researched and published widely in the field of industrial relations, work organisation, workplace learning and European social dialogue. Peter Docherty is Visiting Professor in Services Operations Management at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His research is mainly in the fields of learning at the individual, group, organization and network levels and the organization and management of sustainable organizations.