The Managerial Skills in Complex Systems: An Integrated Approach to Learning Process

Knowledge management in organizations has received significant attention in recent years and corporate training is currently considered a strategically very important resource. This paper suggests the adoption of a tool to support experiential training, since in the current complex socio-economic context organizations must know how to adapt their corporate training to the sudden changes in the market and to the needs of their workers and employees. Through the revision of the experiential model proposed by Kolb and of the complexity curve, the paper aims to propose a suitable tool to support experiential training. The purpose is to create synergies between heterogeneous types of contexts, different styles of learning and appropriate inferences for problem solving. An epistemic model illustrates the most effective learning styles and paths in conditions of high complexity. The originality of this article is expressed in the systemic learning model suggested: the Managerial Learning Framework (MLF), which allows to associate learning styles to different levels of complexity of the managerial context. In addition, the theoretical and practical implications related to the selection of employees and recruitment process of managers in the current postmodern era are suggested from a corporate training perspective.