The organizational learning cycle : how we can learn collectively / Nancy M. Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, Nancy M., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Brookfield, Vt. : Gower, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Organizational Learning Cycle was the first book to provide the theory that underpins organizational learning. Its sophisticated approach enabled readers to not only understand how, but more importantly why, organizations are able to learn. This new edition takes the original concepts and theories and shows how they might, and are, being put into action. With five new or completely revised chapters, Nancy Dixon describes the kind of infrastructure organizations need to put in place; there are examples of knowledge databases, whole systems in the room processes and after-action reviews originating from organizations that are making real progress with these ideas. A clearer relationship between organizational learning and more participative forms of organizational governance is drawn, along with responsibilities that employees need to take on to enable, and partake in, collective learning. With new case material from BP, the US Army, Ernst and Young, and the Bank of Montreal, for example, this book shows how you can make use of the collective reasoning, intelligence and knowledge of the organization and channel it into its ongoing and future development."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction

chapter 2 A theoretical framework of individual learning

chapter 3 The hallways of learning

chapter 4 The organizational learning cycle

chapter 5 A theoretical framework for organizational learning

chapter 6 Infrastructure for organizational learning

chapter 7 Measuring organizational learning

chapter 8 Developing managers for organizational learning

chapter 9 The responsibilities of members in an organization that is learning

chapter 10 Defining a culture that supports learning

chapter 11 Organizational learning and beyond.

Notes:

"A Gower Book"--cover.

First edition published 1994 by McGraw-Hill Book Company. Published 1999 by Gower Publishing Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-02214-9

1-317-02215-7

1-315-55494-1

0-566-08968-8

9781315554945

OCLC:

70743329