Learning, Working and Living

ELENA ANTONACOPOULOU is Professor Organizational Behaviour at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK, and Director of GNOSIS, a dynamic management research initiative. She is currently Senior Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. Her principal research interests include change and learning processes in organizations. She is currently undertaking a series of research projects in Organizational Learning, Social Practice and Dynamic Capabilities and is focusing on the development of new methodologies for studying social complexity in organizations. PETER JARVI

Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control, to paving the way for viewing learning, working and living in the context of organizational complexity.Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control, to paving the way for viewing learning, working and living in the context of organizational complexity. The book suggests that by focusing on learning as a way of living, the needs of production can be reconciled with the need for employees to have satisfying engagement with their work.