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Facilitating Organizations to Dance with the Complex "Logic of Life": Spinning with Paradoxes in Regenerative Appreciative Inquiry Summits
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Johan Lilja – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: Organizations will be key to realizing the "transformative change for humanity" now being called for. However, the complexity calls for new ways of facilitating change and organizational learning; it also calls for moving beyond sustainability to develop practices that restore and regenerate the world in which we live. Above…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Organizational Change, Sustainability, Transformative Learning
A Systemic Approach to Processes of Power in Learning Organizations: Part II - Triple Loop Learning and a Facilitative Intervention in the "500 Schools Project"
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Flood, Robert L.; Romm, Norma R. A. – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to give practical insights into the systemic approach to organizational learning "triple loop learning" (TLL; introduced in Part I) by reflecting on a facilitated research-and-intervention undertaken in South Africa as part of the "500 Schools Project". Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Organizational Culture, Learning, Systems Approach
Transformative Evaluation: Organisational Learning through Participative Practice
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Cooper, Sue – Learning Organization, 2014
Purpose: This research paper presents an innovative evaluation methodology which was developed as part of a doctoral research study in a voluntary sector youth organisation in England. Design/methodology/approach: The transformative methodology synthesises aspects of appreciative inquiry, participatory evaluation and transformative learning and…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Groups)
Team Performance in Learning Organizations: Mediating Effect of Employee Engagement
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Hoon Song, Ji; Hun Lim, Doo; Gu Kang, In; Kim, Woocheol – Learning Organization, 2014
Purpose: This aim of the current research is to provide empirical evidence for the relationships among several organizational factors affecting team performance improvement, including the learning organization and employee engagement. In addition, the mediating effect of employee engagement was assessed to explain team performance improvement…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Performance, Employees, Participation
Fostering Organizational Sustainability through Dialogical Interaction
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Wals, Arjen E. J.; Schwarzin, Lisa – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to introduce and investigate dialogic interaction as a key element of achieving a transition towards sustainability in people, organizations and society as a whole. Furthermore "sustainability competence" as a potential outcome of such interaction is to be introduced, referring to the capacities and qualities…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Interaction, Case Studies, Models
From Blaming to Learning: Re-Framing Organisational Learning from Adverse Incidents
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Gray, Dee; Williams, Sion – Learning Organization, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss and present research findings from a proof of concept pilot, set up to test whether a teaching intervention which incorporated a dual reporting and learning approach from adverse incidents, could contribute towards individual and organisational approaches to patient safety. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Organizational Culture, Fear
Learning about Learning in Knowledge-Intense Organizations
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Dovey, Ken; White, Richard – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: This paper describes and analyses an attempt to engage in transformational learning, oriented to the development of a culture of innovation, at a medium-size software development organization in Australia. Design/methodology/approach: An action research methodology was used whereby continuous cycles of strategic social learning were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Learning Processes, Innovation