The Learning Organization: Volume 5 Issue 1

How literature may be used to assist in the education of managers

Claire Cohen

This article explores two questions. First, can literature be a useful material for the teacher of management? Second, how might this material be used? The article acknowledges…

Practical steps towards a learning organisation: applying academic knowledge to improvement and innovation in business processes

Bill Buckler

This paper outlines research currently being carried out at the Nottingham Trent University, in collaboration with a recently privatised utility. The aim of the research is to…

Transforming the rhetoric of organisational learning to the reality of the learning organisation

Rysia Reynolds, Anne Ablett

It has become generally accepted that “people and not capital add the competitive edge” (The Sunday Times, 17 November 1996). This belief is often put into practice through the…

Strategic crisis aversion: the value of a “style audit”

John L. Thompson

Reminds us that different organizations seek to deal with environmental pressures in different ways; some are proactive, others rely largely on reaction. Paradoxically, reactive…

Building and sustaining a learning organization

Richard Teare, Richard Dealtry

Considers how to create a learning environment and the implications for learning organizations. Draws on an Internet conference with managers from airport owner and operator BAA…

Action Learning at Work

Trevor Thornett