The Learning Organization: Volume 4 Issue 2

Teamwork, chocolate and Alice

J.O. Burdett

Uses the story of Albert the tortoise to explain the principles of teamwork within an organization. Shows the benefits of this to the organization as a whole, and to Albert the…

The effects of formal mentoring on employee work motivation, organizational commitment and job performance

Christopher Orpen

Examines the effects of a two‐year formal mentoring programme in a medium‐sized manufacturing company on the work motivation, organizational commitment and job performance of…

The corporate leadership crisis: break out this way

Peter A.C. Smith, John Peters

Discusses a “crisis in leadership” and sets out to address the reasons for the lack of leaders, caused largely by a lack of systematic leadership development. Proposes that a…

The nature of data, information and knowledge exchanges in business processes: implications for process improvement and organizational learning

Nereu F. Kock, Robert J. McQueen, James L. Corner

Suggests that a number of assumptions in the past have been made about how business process improvement, re‐engineering and organizational learning should take place in…