A Concise Guide to the Learning Organization (Mike Pedler Library: Developing People & Organizations) - Softcover

Pedler, Mike; Aspinwall, Kath; Aspinall, Kath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189800143X ISBN 13: 9781898001430

Publisher: Lemos & Crane, 1998

Synopsis

Creating and developing learning organizations is an essential quest. But much of the available guidance is criticised for being long-winded and difficult to implement. Now, in A Concise Guide to the Learning Organization, Dr Mike Pedler and Kath Aspinwall show leaders and managers facing unprecedented and unpredictable change how to understand, embrace and harness practical principles, models and approaches that will enhance any organization's capacity to learn. Case examples and "snapshots" of organizations working towards learning are used throughout the book - as are activities that help you evaluate levels of development within your organization.

A Concise Guide to the Learning Organization gives you: * a practical understanding of the nature of learning and organizational learning, and how the principles of the Eleven Characteristics of the Learning Company can be applied

* an appreciation of the blocks to learning, its limitations, and the shadow side of organizations

* ideas for future development - how learning organizations can contribute to the wider environment, their vital role in the creation of the Good Society.

(Forms part of The Mike Pedler Library, which currently features Dialogue at Work by Nancy M Dixon, ABC of Action Learning by Reg Revans, Resolving Conflicts in Organizations by Rennie Fritchie and Malcolm Leary. New titles to follow soon.)

About this title

Review

"I found the book full of wise insights, thought-provoking questions and starkly put dilemmas. For people interested in the theory of the learning organisation, and particularly those interested in developing their practice, this book provides many useful route-maps, signposts and warning notices." -- David Megginson, Sheffield Business School

About the Author

Mike Pedler, series editor of The Mike Pedler Library, is an adviser to some of Britain's leading companies, Revans Professorial Fellow at the University of Salford, visiting professor at the University of York, co-author of the best-selling Managing Yourself, A Manager's Guide to Self-development and The Learning Company. His co-author, Kath Aspinwall, is a lecturer in education management at Sheffield Hallam University and author (with Mike Pedler) of Perfect plc? The purpose and practice of organizational learning and Leading the Learning School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lemos & Crane
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 189800143X
• ISBN 13: 9781898001430
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 173