The Learning Organization: Volume 5 Issue 3

Managing the empowerment of employees to address issues of inter‐employee co‐operation, communication and work redesign

Kym Fraser, Joseph Novak

This paper reports on the outcomes of a study in a service industry in which concept maps were used to facilitate the process of employees at all levels of an organisation…

A methodology for generating feedback in the construction industry

Steve Scott, Richard Harris

Project‐based industries, like the construction industry, are probably the most in need of a learning culture and yet may be least open to such philosophies. The paper gives a…

Learning in smaller organisations

David W. Penn, William Ang’wa, R. Forster, G. Heydon, Susan J. Richardson

Drawing on research based on interviews with small firms in north‐east England, looks at the process of learning in and by small organisations (with 50 or fewer employees). Finds…

The Stumbling Stone method

Ole Hinz

The Stumbling Stone method is a practical way of establishing a learning organisation. Mobilising employees bridges the gap between the legitimate system and the shadow system of…

Entrepreneurial learning and the growth process in SMEs

David Deakins, Mark Freel

This paper draws on case and interview material, from research with entrepreneurs in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to examine the process of entrepreneurship and…