The Learning Organization: Volume 24 Issue 3

Learning together and working apart: routines for organizational learning in virtual teams

Nancy Dixon

Research suggests that teaming routines facilitate learning in teams. This paper identifies and details how specific teaming routines, implemented in a virtual team, support its…

The learning organization and the level of consciousness

Ricardo Chiva

The purpose of this paper is to analyze learning organization by comparing with other types of organizations. This typology is based on the levels of consciousness and relates…

Teaching giants to learn: lessons from army learning in World War II

Max Visser

This paper aims to discuss the “truism” that learning organizations cannot be large organizations and, conversely, that large organizations cannot be learning organizations. This…

N-loop learning: part I – of hedgehog, fox, dodo bird and sphinx

Bernard L. Simonin

This paper aims to encourage greater clarity and stimulate further interest in thorough empirical research in the area of learning levels. The broader motivation here is to urge…

Why is organizing human resource development so problematic?: Perspectives from the learning-network theory (Part I)

Rob F. Poell, Ferd van der Krogt

Human resource development (HRD) is an important field within management. Developing employees is often regarded as an instrument to improve the internal labor market and support…

Analyzing the loops and taking the steps on the journey toward a learning organization

Simon Reese

Strategic Organizational Learning – Using System Dynamics for Innovation and Sustained Performance

Helena Martins