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Sinha, Ruchi; Stothard, Christina – Learning Organization, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to clarify under which conditions, and via what mechanisms, power asymmetry is likely to affect team learning. This work is part of a two-paper series. Part I presents the theoretical arguments linking power asymmetry to team learning via egalitarianism and the moderating role of environmental hardship. In Part II, the…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Environmental Influences
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Sinha, Ruchi; Stothard, Christina – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to understand the effects of team power asymmetry (hierarchy) on team learning. Design/methodology/approach: Literature suggests that power asymmetry can hurt team learning due to unequal interactions. The authors integrate the situated focus theory of power and the theory of adversarial growth to propose that…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Peer Relationship
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Morland, Kate V.; Breslin, Dermot; Stevenson, Fionn – Learning Organization, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to examine multiple learning cycles across a UK housebuilder organization following changes made to their quality management routine at the organizational level, through to subsequent understanding and enactment at the level of the individuals involved. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Learning, Feedback (Response)
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Rupcic, Nataša – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight challenges regarding methodological approach in studying learning organizations as well as the following content related issues--knowledge harvesting in project work, role of middle managers in creating energized learning environment, structuring individual activities to promote learning, impact…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Learning, Administrative Organization, Teamwork
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Cauwelier, Peter; Ribière, Vincent M.; Bennet, Alex – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to evaluate if the concept of team psychological safety, a key driver of team learning and originally studied in the West, can be applied in teams from different national cultures. The model originally validated for teams in the West is applied to teams in Thailand to evaluate its validity, and the views team…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Mixed Methods Research
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Weinberg, Frankie J. – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a knowledge-sharing model that explains individual members' motivation to share knowledge (knowledge donation and knowledge collection). Design/methodology/approach: The model is based on social-constructivist theories of epistemological beliefs, learning and distributed cognition, and is organized…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Models, Constructivism (Learning), Teamwork
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Browaeys, Marie-Joelle; Fisser, Sandra – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to contribute to the discussion of treating the concepts of lean and agile in isolation or combination by presenting an alternative view from complexity thinking on these concepts, considering an epistemological approach to this topic. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts an epistemological approach, using…
Descriptors: Models, Epistemology, Competition, Organizational Effectiveness
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Rogers, Katrina S. – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The paper's aim is to explore the connection between individual worldviews, called ecological selves, and organizational change, which allows people to create the conditions to confront the global environmental challenges they face as a species. Design/methodology/approach: The essay is a conceptual one, with reference to a small…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Ecology, Organizational Change, Developmental Stages
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Pauleen, David J.; Corbitt, Brian; Yoong, Pak – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: To provide a conceptual model for the discovery and articulation of emergent organizational knowledge, particularly knowledge that develops when people work with new technologies. Design/methodology/approach: The model is based on two widely accepted research methods--action learning and grounded theory--and is illustrated using a case…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Grounded Theory, Experiential Learning, Educational Technology