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Finnestrand, Hanne – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how the Nordic model, featuring highly regulated trade union-employer collaboration, has enabled the building of learning organizations through a co-generative learning model involving both practitioners and action researchers. Design/methodology/approach: A literature search on the Nordic sociotechnical…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Unions, Employers, Cooperation
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Backstrom, Tomas – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The generation of resources is a central issue for the sustainability of companies. The purpose of this paper is to deal with two research questions: "Is decentralized generation of resources a possible way to reach sustainability in modern work life?" and "What prerequisites must be formed by organizations and managers to reach…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Resource Allocation, Sustainable Development, Behavior Theories
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Ford, Randal – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine organizational practice to investigate what insights could be gained to support and extend existing theory. Design/methodology/approach: Adopts a clinical approach, e.g. not a priori or an academic one where data are mangled to fit a theoretical stance. Findings: Data analysis reveals four…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Work Environment, Organizational Development, Human Resources
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Jamali, Dima; Sidani, Yusuf; Zouein, Charbel – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to survey the various measurement instruments of the learning organization on offer, leading to the adoption of a tool that was considered most suitable for gauging progress towards the learning organization in two sectors of the Lebanese economy, namely banking and information technology (IT).…
Descriptors: Banking, Systems Approach, Measurement, Information Technology
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Small, Adrian; Sice, Petia; Venus, Tony – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to set out an argument for a way to design, implement and manage IS with an emphasis on first, the learning that can be created through undertaking the approach, and second, the learning that may be created through using the IS that was implemented. The paper proposes joining two areas of research namely,…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Information Systems, Methods, Manufacturing
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Jamali, D.; Khoury, G.; Sahyoun, H. – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To track changes in management paradigms from the bureaucratic to the post-bureaucratic to the learning organization model, highlighting core differentiating features of each paradigm as well as necessary ingredients for successful evolution. Design/methodology/approach: The article takes the form of a literature review and critical…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Literature Reviews, Systems Approach, Change Strategies