User:Pat Miner23/Reg Revans

Action Learning
It was at the Coal Board that Revans did much of the early work on developing action learning, working alongside E. F. Schumacher (author of Small is Beautiful) and Eric Trist, whose theories about socio-technical systems have also had an important influence on organization development.

He and Chester both moved to the University of Manchester where Revans became the first professor of industrial management (1955–1965) but left to develop the inter-university action learning program in Belgium.

Revans strongly held that the key to improving performance lay not with 'experts' but with practitioners themselves.

Legacy
Remove: His techniques have been applied in many organizations and by management consultants and academics including Richard Brimble, Mike Pedler, Alan Mumford, and Richard Hale in the UK, and Michael Marquardt, Yury Boshyk, Robert Kramer, and Joe Raelin in the United States.

The Revans Collection is to be found at Salford University.