Realising the Learning Organisation through System Thinking

A Cyber-systemic Approach to Human Resource Development
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-21335-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Business and Management

This book revisits one of management theory's most enduring aspirations, the learning organisation, through three decades of research, practice, and reflection. Structured in three temporal layers (1993, 2013, and 2026), the book traces the evolution of cyber-systemic Human Resource Development from its origins in Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Soft Systems Methodologies, through empirical field research with leading German corporations, to a deepened contemporary understanding of how organisations can genuinely learn, self-regulate, and regenerate.

The book offers a rigorous yet reflective framework for moving HRD beyond individual learning toward collective and organisational learning, grounded in management cybernetics, second-order systems thinking, and the author's thirty years of corporate and consultancy practice.

It will appeal to HR practitioners, organisational developers, management consultants, and systems thinkers who sense the persistent gap between the concept of the learning organisation and organisational realities. Researchers in systems sciences, cybernetics, and organisation studies will find both a historically significant primary text and a theoretically rich contemporary synthesis.

Readers will gain conceptual tools and practical models for designing self-reflective, resilient organisations, and an invitation to let the question of organisational learning evolve into a lived, generative understanding.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Are We Learning? 1. Human Resource Development 2. Towards Systemic HRD 3. A Cyber-systemic Model of HRD 4. Systemic HDR Practice 5. Revisiting the Learning Organisation

Über Autor(innen)

Louis Klein is a German economist, social scientist, and systems researcher renowned for his contributions to systemic change and complex project management. He serves as Dean of the European School of Governance (EUSG) in Berlin, Germany and as Secretary-General of the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR) in Vienna, Austria. In his work, he is focusing on the epistemological shift meeting the challenges of the Anthropocene and the Polycrisis.