a culture of change and improvement within an organization, characterized by employee enthusiasm, energy, and high levels of creativity and innovation. In their book Organizational Learning (1978), Chris Argyris and Donald Schön suggest that if a number of employee development activities are in progress within an organization, a sense of organizational movement and development can be achieved, and that, with the right encouragement, support, and reward, this can become self-perpetuating. The concept of organizational learning was further developed by Peter Senge, and repopularized as the learning organization.
Organizational learning takes place when the organization constantly learns from past mistakes and refrains from repeating them in the future. It is imperative to measure organizational learning to assess the progress made by the organization. The Balanced Scorecard BS framework measures performance of the organization by effectively measuring organizational learning....
There has been an explosion of interest in both popular and academic literature on the topic of organizational learning over the past 15 years. Comparatively there has been a dearth of literature focusing on the specific realm of inter-organizational learning. An area of study of inter-organizational learning that seems to...
Organizational achievement is a yardstick to measure the success of an organization in managing change. There are three tools used in achieving such success. They are strategic planning, organizational development, and organizational learning. Strategic planning is imperative in proactively managing change. Organizational development focuses on participative management in carrying out...
Performance driven learning is key to successfully managing employee development and gaining the highest return on your e-Learning investment. Simply tracking learning participation and effectiveness is not enough to impact an organization's bottom line and increase shareholder value. In this complimentary white paper you will learn how...
This paper investigates several issues regarding the nature, domain, conceptual foundations, and practical challenges of knowledge management and organizational learning. The paper first identifies and contrasts two fundamental philosophical orientations to knowledge management - the personal knowledge orientation and the organizational knowledge orientation - and illustrates the distinctive kinds of...
From the executive summary: ‘The paper addresses the issue of how gainsharing programs work by proposing a model of gainsharing as an organizational learning system. Employee suggestions submitted over the first four years of a gainsharing plan at one plant are analyzed. The results indicated that although traditional explanations of...
This paper contributes to research on organizational learning by investigating specific learning activities undertaken by improvement project teams in hospital intensive care units and proposing an integrative model to explain implementation success. Organizational learning is important in this context because medical knowledge changes constantly, and hospital care units must learn...
The external and internal environment of an organization is in a state of constant change. The organization has to re-adjust itself to this changing scenario in order to sustain competitive advantage in the market. Learning is a tool, which the organization uses for re-aligning itself according to the change. Learning...
The effective use, preservation and creation of knowledge in design-type work processes is of vital interest for an enterprise. This paper presents the CLOCKWORK approach to organizational learning which comprises a web-based toolset to structure, store and retrieve knowledge elements created during all phases of the product development. The examination...
How do employees know where the best knowledge is? Do they care which "brand" it falls under? When faced with a problem or issue at work, employees need answers or expertise whether they come from communities of practice, learning management systems, expertise locator systems, best practice repositories, training courses, online...
Leading organizations are implementing human capital development and management HCDM as a business strategy to improve performance through a management system for aligning, developing and managing people. Enterprise learning, a key component of HCDM, offers significant opportunities to attain organizational performance goals. This white paper is designed to help exploring...
An organization is subjected to constant changes in its external and internal environment. To stay afloat in the market, it is imperative for the organization to adapt itself to these changes. Change management is the concrete methodology followed by an organization in adapting to an environmental or otherwise change. Learning...
Whether growth comes from new markets, new products, or new acquisitions, it's most likely to proceed smoothly and successfully if it stems from - and is nurtured by - an organized learning process.
Nowadays, executive management understands that organizational learning enables organizational performance. It enables agility, change and growth. Because it is the centerpiece of the strategy to recruit, retain and leverage the most talented people, learning is how one causes their value to appreciate. The benefits of the Business Process Outsourcing BPO...
The purpose of this paper is to understand how communication behaviours influence new product development NPD speed and organisational learning. Through the use of structural equation modelling, this research tests a model examining the effects of communication behaviours (i.e. communication quality, bi-directional communication, and communication frequency) on NPD speed and...
From the executive summary: ‘Today's organizational leaders must think systemically and create mentoring cultures rather than opting for the more expedient route of running a program. A resilient mentoring program requires cultural scaffolding to support its implementation, fully embed it in the organization, and secure organizational investment in the enterprise....
Conceptualizing market orientation at the level of the product development process is relevant, because market orientation is a highly critical factor for new product success and this conceptualization can be used as a starting-point to transform the whole organization into a more market oriented one. Market-oriented product development appears to...
The organizational routine defined here as a coordinated, repetitive set of organizational activities is an important element of organizational learning and knowledge management. Some scholars even consider routines to be the only source of sustainable strategic advantage for firms. This paper helps fill this gap in the literature by examining...
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Organizational change is important to usher in long-term success in an organization. A change entails realignment of organizational systems and processes. Managing change involves institutionalizing the philosophy of change in the organization. Effective change management entails creating a definitive vision and managing the transition to the desired future state. The...
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