organizational analyses 2500 Problem Solving Case Study and Proposal Report
Organisational Analysis Knowledge and the Learning Organisation
Tutorial Activity (Week 7)
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The Art & Practice of the Learning Organisation
The Five Disciplines in Learning Organisations
Building shared vision (leaders must be the stewards not owners of the visions)
Systems thinking (interrelatedness)
The contribution of personal mastery
Team learning
Acknowledging and examining mental models
The Fifth Discipline (Senge, 1990)
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Learning Strategy in Organisations
Discuss hallmarks of Learning Organisations
A learning organisation possesses a ‘culture’ that encourages and supports continuous learning, critical reflection and thinking, innovation and risk taking informed by new ideas and organisational approaches.
encourage employee contributions (the major holders of tacit knowledge).
learn from experience, risk taking and mistakes
make it a practice to disseminate knowledge throughout the organisation
recognise environmental and contextual specificities and local knowledge
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Learning Organisations and Organisational Change
In this course, we want to pose this challenge to you:
Do organisations change,
or
Are organisations in a learning cycle?
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Why are there so few learning organisations? Discuss in your groups.
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Learning Organization Maturity
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How can organisations scale up in terms of learning maturity? Discuss in your groups.
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