Organisational learning and the modern army : a new model for lessons-learned processes / Tom Dyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyson, Tom, author.

Series:

Cass military studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army--Personnel management--Case studies.

Great Britain.

Germany. Heer--Personnel management--Case studies.

Germany.

Great Britain. Army.

Germany. Heer.

Military education--Case studies.

Military education.

Organizational learning--Case studies.

Organizational learning.

Armed Forces--Personnel management.

Personnel management.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain. Army.

Germany. Heer.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 262 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Organizational learning and the modern army

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Drawing upon extensive original research, this book explores best-practice in army lessons-learned processes. Without the correct learning mechanisms, military adaptation can be blocked, or the wider lessons from adaptation can easily be lost, leading to the need to relearn lessons in the field, often at great human and financial cost. This book analyses the organisational processes and activities which can help improve tactical- and operational-level learning through case studies of lessons-learned in two key NATO armies: that of Britain and of Germany. Providing the first comparative analysis of the variables which facilitate or impede the emergence of best-practice in military learning, it makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on knowledge management and learning in public organisations. It will be of much interest to lessons-learned practitioners, and students of military and strategic studies, defence studies, organisation studies and security studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Lessons-learned processes as the transmission belt from adaptation to innovation

A model of best-practice in military learning

Theorising military learning

The development of the institutional architecture of British Army lessons learned : a tale of two potential absorptive capacities

The performance of British Army lessons-learned : tactical-level success and operational-level failure

The British Army's knowledge transformation capability : the struggle to establish a culture of experimentation and creativity

The performance of German Army lessons learned : limited adaptation, innovation and emulation at the tactical and operational level

The impediments to knowledge transformation in the German Army.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dyson, Tom, author. Organisational learning and the modern army

ISBN:

9780367247126

0367247127

OCLC:

1089489947