Learning Organizations

Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-56327-340-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 572 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 1060 g

What is a learning organization? What are the advantages of creating one? Why should a company want to become a learning organization? Where does one start?
Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars of this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example.
Lead authors include Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, London Business School's Professor Emeritus Charles Handy, and MlT's Fred Kofman and Peter Senge.
The thirty-two essays in this comprehensive collection are presented in four main parts:
1. Guiding Ideas
2. Theories/Methods/Processes
3. Infrastructure
4. Arenas of Practice

Zielgruppe

Professional and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renesch, John

Chawla, Sarita

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Andere Fertigungstechnologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Beginner's Mind Sarita Chawla PART ONE: GUIDING IDEAS 1. Communities of Commitment: The Heart of the Learning Organizations Fred Kofman and Peter Senge 2. Managing the Dream Charles Handy 3. Ahead of the Wave: Valuing Gender Perspectives in Learning Cultures Marilynne Anderson 4. Mastering Change Rosabeth Moss Kanter 5. The Renaissance of Learning in Business John W. Thompson 6. The Transformational Leader: The Wellspring of the Learning rganization James Rolls 7. Why Smart Organizations Don't Learn Lisa J. Marshall, Sandy Mobley, and Gene Calvert PART TWO: THEORIES/METHODS/PROCESSES Story: 8. Stories for Learning: Exploring Your Circumstances Diane Cory and Paula Underwood 9. The Seventh Story: Extending Learning Organizations Far Beyond Business Dialogues: 10. Dialogue: Capacities and Stories Judy Brown 11. Mindshift: Strategic Dialgoue for Breakthrough Thinking 12. Language as Action: Linking Metaphors with Organization Transformation Coaching: 13. Generative Coaching: A Surprising Odyssey Kendall Murphy Systems: 14. Building Learning Laboratories to Create More Effective Distributed Decision Making W. Brian Kreutzer 15. FASTBreak: A Facilitation Approach to Systems Thinking Breakthroughs David P. Kreutzer Tools: 16. The DNA of the Learning Organization Robert Dilworth 17. Wisdom at Work: An Inqurity into the Dimensions of Higher Order Learning Dr. Joel Levey and Michelle Levey PART III: INFRASTRUCTURE 18. Learning Communities: An Alternative to the "Expert Model" Stephanie Ryan 19. Learning Out of Context Eric Edwards Vogt 0. Vitalizing Work Design: Implementing a Developmental Philosophy Carol Sanford

Über Autor(innen)

John Renesch, Sarita Chawla