Shani, Abraham B Rami Shani

Learning by Design

Building Sustainable Organizations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Learning is an essential process for attaining and maintaining sustainability at both the individual and business level. Establishing a learning organization requires a whole-hearted and sustained endeavour. This book facilitates such an endeavour by providing both a coherent framework for analysis and practical models for action. It focuses on the choices organizations make about the design and implementation of specific learning mechanisms. The authors illustrate this "learning-by-design" approach through six detailed case studies, taken from different industries and national settings and focusing on different aspects of organizational learning. They then present an overall analysis of the cases, capturing the nature of the learning requirements, design dimensions and mechanisms, and looking at how these link to each other and to company strategy, resources, and performance. Various learning paradoxes are discussed, as well as issues that merit further study.Students of management and organizational studies, academics in these fields, and executives will find this a valuable resource for learning, reflection, and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780631232773
• ISBN-10: 063123277X
• Artikelnr.: 22274844

Autorenporträt

A. B. (Rami) Shani is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a visiting Research Professor on the FENIX Programme at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Peter Docherty is Professor of Services Operations Management at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. He is also a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Working Life in Stockholm.A. B. (Rami) Shani and Peter Docherty have collaborated previously on the book Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Critical Need for Learning by Design.

2. Competitive Strategy, Sustainablility and Learning.

3. Individual Competencies, Learning and Performance.

4. Designing Business-focused Teams.

5. Transformation and Learning.

6. Development Processes, Learning and Competitiveness.

7. Knowledge Management Processes and Learning.

8. Learning in Multi Stakeholder Network.

9. Designing Sustainable Learning Organization.

10. Learning by Design: Change and Future.

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Rezensionen

"It provides a much-needed bridge from an organizationallearning literature that is often abstract and idiosyncratic toconcrete organizational learning mechanisms that can make the spacefor adaptive learning to occur for individuals, teams and theorganization. Shani and Docherty have created a book that isvaluable for both scholars and practitioners in management andorganizational learning." David A. Kolb, Case WesternReserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

"Collective design is certainly one of the main issues forthe advancement of management and social sciences, and by adoptinga learning perspective Shani and Docherty offer fresh, perfectlygrounded, and valuable views to the field, both in theory andpractice." Armand Hatchuel, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris,France

"These authors have been pioneers in the area oforganizational learning. The insights and experience on which theydraw, backed by recent case examples, are a major strength of thebook and make it a valuable resource for practitioners in industryand for students of organizational learning and change."Bengt Stymne, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm,Sweden

"This book belongs to the management literature, but as so fewlibraries have become learning organisations that it would be goodif more managers read books like this one" ElectronicLibrary