Experimentation in Learning Organizations (Classic Reprint)
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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
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Print on Demand. This book offers a fresh perspective on harnessing organizational culture to improve employee performance and overall organizational success. It proposes a model for assessing and reshaping organizational culture, viewing it as a fluid and dynamic system rather than a static entity. The book draws on diverse fields such as psychology, sociology, and economics to provide a comprehensive understanding of organizational culture and its effects. Through case studies and real-world examples, the author demonstrates how organizations can create and maintain a culture that aligns with their strategic goals and fosters innovation, collaboration, and employee satisfaction. Offering practical tools and techniques for assessing and transforming organizational culture, this book is a valuable guide for leaders seeking to leverage the power of culture to drive organizational effectiveness. Its insights are crucial for organizations looking to thrive in today's rapidly changing business landscape. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.…
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- Experimentation in Learning Organizations (Classic Reprint)
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- Bent Bakken, Janet Gould
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- Forgotten Books
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- 2018
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Abstract: Managers real life experiences will need to be supported by new learning tools, as external environments and internal dynamics of organizations become more complex. This need for simulated managerial experience has come from a trend towards fewer hierarchical levels organizations. Managerial competency that was once achieved by progressing through the many layers needs to be obtained through other means. This article shows how management flight simulators can enhance learning by allowing managers to compress time and space, experiment with various strategies, and learn from simulated deployments by reflecting on the outcomes. We focus on three aspects of the use of such simulators 1) the design of a generic learning process - learning laboratories - to address service quality management issues in a variety of industrial settings; 2) how dimensions of this learning can be operationalized and measured; and 3) an experimental study that shows the transfer aspect of learning and how different learning strategies affect the way in which participants transfer learning across domains.
Keywords: Learning organizations, transfer, gaming, system dynamics, behavioral decision making, simulation
1. Introduction
Organizational decision making is highly complex and managerial choices are far from trivial. The fact that people have a hard time learning from real-life experiences compounds the problem, especially when the decisions and their consequences are separated in time and space. In the Us, for example, one of New England's largest banks provides an illustration of how difficult learning from experience can be. The banks aggressive pursuit of ship-owning clients in the seventies led to huge losses in shipping portfolios in the early eighties. Massive losses led the bank to liquidate its entire shipping portfolio. At the same time, however, they aggressively expanded into risky real estate developments. In the late eighties, their real estate ventures resulted in quarterly losses of up to one billion dollars. These losses eventually caused the banks ultimate demise in 1991. Although shipping and real estate markets share many structural features and are unstable for similar reasons, this bank was apparently unable to learn from their mistakes in shipping and repeated them in real estate (Bakken, 1990).
This example not only highlights how difficult it is to learn causal relations in one decision environment, but also shows that decision makers do not easily draw appropriate lessons from failures. Certainly, people must simplify their decision environments into manageable chunks, lest decision making be impossible (Simon, 1956: 1978).
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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