The Learning Organization: Volume 5 Issue 4

The responsibilities of members in an organization that is learning

Nancy M. Dixon

As organizations move toward organizational learning the responsibilities of members change. Organizational members, themselves, should be giving consideration to what these new…

How do workers learn in their work?

Rod Gerber

It is often assumed by management in different workplaces that the people who work there acquire their training before they take up a job or that they are trained in their job…

Increasing the organization’s IQ: public sector leadership in Southeast Asia

Philip Hallinger

We live during an era in which the pace and scope of change are unprecedented. This is particularly true in the Asia‐Pacific region where rapid growth has challenged the capacity…

Learning about learning organisations: case studies of skill formation in five New Zealand organisations

Roberta Hill, Tony Bullard, Phillip Capper, Kathryn Hawes, Ken Wilson

This paper reports findings from five case studies of New Zealand organisations that introduced new initiatives such as TQM and “learning organisation” concepts as a result of…

Organizational dilemmas as barriers to learning

Lars Steiner

The theories of Senge and Argyris and Schön were used in analysing an attempt to develop a learning organization in a Swedish manufacturer of tools. The research was a case study…

Action Learning in Practice

Mike Pedler