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Ehses, Christiane; Zech, Rainer: Good organisation – a contribution to the self-conception of the adult education profession Quality standards were found on the empirical basis of analysis of consultancy cases as well as group discussions with heads and consultants of adult education organisations. These quality standards can be the precondition for a comparability of organisations and they can also be quality standards for their organisation’s evaluation by internal or external evaluators a…
Using the example of the integrated further education of the police of the land Brandenburg this paper examines how a profound measure of reorganisation can be supported by a behaviour oriented further education. Possibilities are being shown of how to achieve the necessary behavioural changes within the larger frame of a reform process with the help of a framework of further education within the organization itself. Changing established patterns of behaviour of adults has proved to be very dif…
Die Autoren untersuchen die Konzepte, die hinter den Begriffen Lernkultur und Unternehmensstruktur jeweils stehen. Dies wird zum Ausgangspunkt für den Nachweis, dass Organisationsentwicklung und Lernkultur im Sinne einer zukunftsfähigen Weiterentwicklung von Organisationen aufeinander bezogen werden müssen.
Organisationsentwicklung ist für viele Volkshochschulen kein Schlagwort mehr, sondern gelebte Praxis. In diesem Band sind Berichte zusammengestellt worden, die das Thema Organisationswandel und die Konsequenzen für Ziele und Selbstverständnis behandeln, sei es durch intern gesteuerte Organisationsveränderung, sei es auf Anforderung von außen durch die Kommunalverwaltung, sei es mit Hilfe externer Organisationsberatung. Es werden Fallbeispiele praktischer Veränderungen aus der Perspektive der Be…
The article deals with cooperation under the perspective of governance from an organisational view. According to the variety forms of cooperation in the field of adult education, cooperation can be seen as a medium that adult educational organisations can use for their reproduction and coordination in different institutional environment. Based on empirical findings from a case study, it can be shown that organisations initiate cooperation for collecting resources and legitimation. So, organisat…
