The Learning Organization: Volume 1 Issue 1

Creativity and the Learning Culture

Martha G. White

Calls for a deep exploration of the changes in thinking and behaviournecessary for the creation of a learning organization. The issues ofindividual and organizational evolution…

Four Approaches to Learning from Experience

Alan Mumford

Investigates what lies behind the cliche that “managers learn fromexperience”. Reviews a project undertaken with 21 directors in 15organizations in the United Kingdom, who were…

Continuous Improvement through Employee Training: A Case Example from the Financial Services Industry

Stephen C. Bushardt, Cherie Fretwell, Patti Byrd Cumbest

Illustrates the results accomplished by an ad hoc committee establishedat a bank to conduct training throughout the organization, withparticular emphasis on providing quality…

Learning for Total Quality: An Action Learning Approach

K.C. Chan

There is incongruity between what business schools teach and whatbusiness organizations actually need. Hence, the criticism of businessschool graduates as “corporate burdens”…

An Analysis of Discrimination Skills as a Process of Organizational Learning

Marjorie A. Lyles

Analyses four firms to determine if they develop the ability to beselective and to determine what factors have the greatest impact ondiscrimination. Discrimination skills involve…

Organizational Learning Based on Transforming Collective Consciousness

Bengt Gustavsson, Harald S. Harung

Previous research suggests that there are a number of distinct stages ofpsychological development of an individual, and that the level ofdevelopment has a direct bearing on a…