The Learning Organization: Developing Democracy at Work - Softcover

Garratt, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006530532 ISBN 13: 9780006530534

Publisher: HarperCollins Business, 2001

Synopsis

Practical and provocative, this book by one of the world’s experts in management education offers a fresh perspective on the way organizations work.

Bob Garratt proposes a theory of organizations as ‘learning systems’ in which success depends on the ability of managers to become ‘direction-givers’ and on the organization’s capacity for learning continuously.

As well as considering the work of other business thinkers, Garratt employs a wide range of experimental models and graphic illustrations to demonstrate both the stagnation which results from the absence of these skills, and the dramatic effects of their positive implementation.

Fully revised and with a new introduction, The Learning Organization is a seminal work – exciting, informative and a challenge to all directors, management educators and the business community at large.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Garratt is editor of the Successful Manager and Strategist series and author of ‘The Learning Organization’, ‘Learning to Lead’ and ‘The Fish Rots from the Head’. He has worked in many European countries, the USA, Australia and New Zealand and has been developing management education in China and Hong Kong since 1976. He lives in north London.

From the Back Cover

"It offers a challenge to directors, management educators and the business community at large."
SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

"Crammed with good sense… It should be on every director's desk"
CITY TO CITIES

"This book will be useful for those who want to turn the mantra of 'our staff are our most valuable asset' into a meaningful reality."
STRATEGY

PRACTICAL AND PROVOCATIVE, THIS BOOK OFFERS A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON THE WAY ORGANIZATIONS WORK.

The concept of the Learning Organisation has become one of the most written and talked about management practices. As our world becomes more complex and uncertain it is crucial for both individual and organisations to learn regularly and rigorously from their work to enable them to adopt rapidly, capably and continuously to their changing environments – giving them a much higher chance of surviving and developing.

In this fully revised edition of his practical and provocative book, Bob Garratt, one of the world's leading experts in management education, offers a fresh perspective on the way organisations work. In the knowledge economy people are the key to organisational learning and need to be much more involved in the critical debate with organisations. The very nature of relationships between employers and employees, owners and their agents, needs to be re-evaluated.

As well as considering the work of other business writers, Garratt employs a wide range of experimental models and graphic illustrations to clearly demonstrate his theories. This exciting and informative book is a challenge to all directors, management educators and the business community at large.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Business
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006530532
• ISBN 13: 9780006530534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160