Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace - Hardcover

Chawla, Sarita; Renesch, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563271109 ISBN 13: 9781563271106

Publisher: Productivity Press, 1995

Synopsis

What is a learning organization? What are the advantages of creating one? Why should a company want to become a learning organization? Where does one start?

Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars of this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example.

Lead authors include Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, London Business School's Professor Emeritus Charles Handy, and MlT's Fred Kofman and Peter Senge.

The thirty-two essays in this comprehensive collection are presented in four main parts:

1. Guiding Ideas

2. Theories/Methods/Processes

3. Infrastructure

4. Arenas of Practice

About this title

Synopsis

The ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage! This compilation of 34 powerful essays, written by experts recognized worldwide, is rich in concept and theory as well as in application and example. An inspiring follow-up to Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline, these essays are grouped in four sections that address all aspects of learning organizations: the guiding ideas behind systems thinking; the theories, methods, and processes for creating a learning organization; the infrastructure of the learning model; and arenas of practice. The authors move you from thinking in parts to thinking systematically, from absolute truths to coherent interpretations, from problem solving to creating, and from self to community. Whether you are a marketing executive, personnel officer, secretary, strategic planner, plant manager or line supervisor, this collection will forever change your mind about work as a place to learn, create, and have fun - not just a place where you go to 'make a living.'

From the Back Cover

Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars on this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example.

Edition details

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563271109
• ISBN 13: 9781563271106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 571