- Copyright Page
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Background and Introduction
- The Topicality of the Learning Organization: is the Concept Still Relevant Today?
- Senge’s Learning Organization: Development of the Learning Organization Model
- Conceptualizing an Organization That Learns
- Garvin’s Learning Organization: A Process Perspective on Learning for Implementation, Improvement, and Innovation
- Learning Company: The Learning Organization According to Pedler, Burgoyne, and Boydell
- Building Learning Organizations With Action Learning
- Personal Paradoxes in Learning to Design “the Learning Organization”
- On Definitions of the Learning Organization: Toward a New Definition of Learning Organization
- Learning in the Learning Organization: COncepts and Antecedents
- Ambidextrous Learning Organizations
- How the Learning Organization Learns and its Culture Coevolves
- A Mighty Step: Critical Systemic Interpretation of the Learning Organization
- From Learning Organizations to Learning Cultures and More: Evolutions in Theory, Changes in Practice, Continuity of Purpose
- Stakeholders and the Learning Organization
- What is Needed to Create Gender Inclusive Learning Organizations?
- Interventions to Create a Learning Organization
- Glimpses of Organizations in the Act of Learning
- Pegasus or Clever White Horse? In Pursuit of Real Learning Organizations
- The Learning Organization Survey: Validation of an Instrument to Augment Research on Organizational Learning
- Measurement of the Learning Organization Construct: A Critical Perspective and Future Directions for Research
- Learning Organization and Organizational Performance
- How Best to Study the Learning Organization
- The Potential to Nurture Small Businesses to Learning Organization Form
- Contextualizing the Learning Organization: Towards Differentiated Standards
- Becoming a Learning Organization: A Process-Philosophical Perspective
- The Learning Organization as a Practice of Becoming Human
- The Empire Strikes Back: How Learning Organization Scholars Can Learn From The Critiques
- An Antenarrative Amendment to the Learning Organization: Theories to Avert the Sixth Extinction
- The Learning Organization: Critical Analysis and Future Directions
- The Future of the Learning Organization
- Suggestions for Future Research on the Learning Organization
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
Although much has been written about the learning organization, there are few examples of specific practices that are implemented within learning organizations. In this chapter, the author provides authentic and descriptive glimpses of the learning practices in two organizations, one that has been a learning organization for over twenty years and one that is just three years into that journey. The practices in each are unique to their own mission, yet they are encompassed within the three blocks of a learning organization identified by Garvin, Edmondson, and Gino (2008): (1) a supportive environment, (2) concrete learning processes and practices, and (3) leadership behavior that provides reinforcement. What is common to both organizations is the fundamental belief that employees have both the intelligence and the will to act for the good of the whole which gives them the capability and the responsibility to fully participate in addressing their organization’s problems and guiding its strategy.
Keywords: learning organization, psychological safety, positive interdependence, self-determination, physical space, reflection on learning, changeable structure, continuous change, reduction of hierarchy
Nancy M. Dixon, Common Knowledge Associates
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- Copyright Page
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Background and Introduction
- The Topicality of the Learning Organization: is the Concept Still Relevant Today?
- Senge’s Learning Organization: Development of the Learning Organization Model
- Conceptualizing an Organization That Learns
- Garvin’s Learning Organization: A Process Perspective on Learning for Implementation, Improvement, and Innovation
- Learning Company: The Learning Organization According to Pedler, Burgoyne, and Boydell
- Building Learning Organizations With Action Learning
- Personal Paradoxes in Learning to Design “the Learning Organization”
- On Definitions of the Learning Organization: Toward a New Definition of Learning Organization
- Learning in the Learning Organization: COncepts and Antecedents
- Ambidextrous Learning Organizations
- How the Learning Organization Learns and its Culture Coevolves
- A Mighty Step: Critical Systemic Interpretation of the Learning Organization
- From Learning Organizations to Learning Cultures and More: Evolutions in Theory, Changes in Practice, Continuity of Purpose
- Stakeholders and the Learning Organization
- What is Needed to Create Gender Inclusive Learning Organizations?
- Interventions to Create a Learning Organization
- Glimpses of Organizations in the Act of Learning
- Pegasus or Clever White Horse? In Pursuit of Real Learning Organizations
- The Learning Organization Survey: Validation of an Instrument to Augment Research on Organizational Learning
- Measurement of the Learning Organization Construct: A Critical Perspective and Future Directions for Research
- Learning Organization and Organizational Performance
- How Best to Study the Learning Organization
- The Potential to Nurture Small Businesses to Learning Organization Form
- Contextualizing the Learning Organization: Towards Differentiated Standards
- Becoming a Learning Organization: A Process-Philosophical Perspective
- The Learning Organization as a Practice of Becoming Human
- The Empire Strikes Back: How Learning Organization Scholars Can Learn From The Critiques
- An Antenarrative Amendment to the Learning Organization: Theories to Avert the Sixth Extinction
- The Learning Organization: Critical Analysis and Future Directions
- The Future of the Learning Organization
- Suggestions for Future Research on the Learning Organization
- Name Index
- Subject Index
