https://doi.org/10.24928/2021/0211

The Importance of Alignment

John Skaar¹ & Bo Terje Kalsaas²

¹PhD Student/Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, N-4846 Grimstad, Norway, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0003- 2290-2374
²PhD Student/Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, N-4846 Grimstad, Norway, [email protected], orcid.org/0000-0003- 2290-2374

Abstract

Illeris learning model for working life claims that learning only happens if both the individual psychological level and the interaction with the surrounding environment is aligned. With an assumption that a principle-based leadership framework can support and maintain lean initiatives, a conceptual walkthrough is conducted by putting the principlesbased framework up against Illeris’s model for learning in working life. Learning is a fundamental prerequisite for behavioural change, so by discussing how principles can enhance learning in an organization crucial insight is ggained. This insight will further support ongoing fieldwork on action-based research implementing principles within the construction business. A principles-based leadership framework can help align, activate and increase the overlapping area both on work identity and on working practice and therefore be an important contribution for behavioural change in the construction business.

Keywords

Experimental learning, commitment, action research, continuous improvement and leadership.

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Reference

Skaar, J. & Kalsaas, B. T. 2021. The Importance of Alignment, Proc. 29th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) , 534-541. doi.org/10.24928/2021/0211

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