The Learning Organization: Volume 4 Issue 3

Healthcare and the learning service

Jim Grieves, Brian P. Mathews

Argues that because service organizations are faced with greater uncertainty and ambiguity than manufacturing organizations they require a focus on learning in order to control…

Black swans don’t fly double loops: the limits of the learning organization?

Steven Henderson

States that in order to remain competitive, organizations must scan and analyse environmental turbulence, formulate appropriate strategic plans and implement these through a…

The “real world” as classroom: the learning organization and innovation

Dennis J. Cahill

Examines the reasons for creating a learning organization; then proceeds to use the metaphor of the real world as a discussion‐based classroom. Further examines practical…

Using search conferences for building learning, planning and implementing communities that work

Martin Large

States that search conferences originated in the open systems work of Emery and Trist. Covers the following issues: What are search conferences? How did they develop? How do they…

Transformational and adaptive learning within the learning organization: a framework for research and application

Steven H. Appelbaum, Lars Goransson

States that organizational learning is currently a fashionable concept, and this is due to an attempt by many large organizations to develop structures and systems that are more…