Search results for "Organizational Learning"
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Diagnosing and measuring learning organizations
2005
PurposeTo explore and analyse various learning organizations and to attempt to outline the form of a holistic learning organization.Design/methodology/approachThe tool described in this article is a continuation of the work published in a Licentiate thesis in 1996 and developed further in a doctoral dissertation in 2001. The Learning Organization Diamond Tool is based on a holistic concept of a learning organization being regarded as a structure of related elements: driving forces, finding purpose, questioning, empowering and evaluation at two interconnected levels of individuals and the whole. Data from 686 respondents were gathered from 25 Finnish organizations in 1998.FindingsThe outcome…
Fostering Sustainable Organizational Development Through Dynamic Performance Management
2016
This chapter outlines a conceptual and methodological framework to support organizational policy makers in managing and assessing performance within the perspective of sustainability. It analyzes the role of SD to enhance P&C systems so as to both manage performance and foster sustainable development.
Learning failure in information systems development
1999
Information systems development is a high-risk undertaking, and fail- ures remain common despite advances in development tools and technologies. In this paper, we argue that one reason for this is the collapse of organizational intelligence required to deal with the complexities of systems development. Orga- nizations fail to learn from their experience in systems development because of limits of organizational intelligence, disincentives for learning, organizational designs and educational barriers. Not only have many organizations failed to learn, but they have also learned to fail. Over time they accept and expect poor perfor- mance while creating organizational myths that perpetuate sho…
Liderazgo transformacional, capacidad de aprendizaje organizativo y felicidad en el trabajo
2013
En los últimos veinte años se ha producido un incremento de los artículos que buscan cómo mejorar el resultado económico en las empresas. No hay duda de la importancia que tiene esta variable como fin último de cualquier investigación, sin embargo, en este estudio queremos proponer una variable que consideramos de especial relevancia para la investigación en el área de organización de empresas como es la felicidad en el trabajo. La felicidad en general está directamente conectada con beneficios tan importantes como la salud física o mental, y las medidas que hasta ahora se han aproximado a la felicidad en el trabajo se han relacionado con variables tan importantes como la mejora de la motiv…
Contingent reward leader behaviour: Where does it come from?
2010
As many academics have pointed out, while researchers have learned a great deal about the effects of contingent reward (CR) leader behaviour, relatively little is known about its genesis. CR transactional leadership is traditionally viewed as an independent variable which exerts influence downstream. However, if we are to understand how to influence, improve or modify these downstream effects, we need to shift our focus upstream towards the study of transactional leadership as a dependent variable. In line with this reasoning, we put forward the hypothesis that a contextual variable (organizational learning capability) and a subordinate's characteristic (employability) are antecedents of CR…
Constructing Knowledge through a Role-Play in a Web-Based Learning Environment
2003
This study aimed to find out how and on what level the students of two separate secondary schools shared and constructed knowledge on imperialism by interacting through historical role characters in a Web-based environment. Furthermore, the study aimed to find out how social and contextual features affected the nature of knowledge sharing and construction. The data about the history project were gathered by various means in order to validate the findings of the case study. The results demonstrated that the level of the Web-based messages remained quite low. Also the use of the Web-based environment in terms of shared knowledge construction was rather weak. In comparison, different instruct…
The Need of a Dynamic Performance Management Approach to Foster Sustainable Organizational Development
2016
The concept of organizational growth concerns the strategic domain of management. It underlies the aptitude of an organization to attain a set of results leading to its long-term success and continuity.
CONTROLE DE GESTION ET GOUVERNANCE COGNITIVE : ETUDE AU SEIN D'UNE BANQUE MUTUALISTE.
2010
Study of management control in corporate governance field is no more than less developed. The use of cognitive theory allows us to integrate management control tools as a meaning to organizational learning. This fact permit to consider the tools with more sens making in organizations.
The implications of dynamic capacities vis-à-vis competitiveness and innovation in the 21st century
2013
The theoretical transition being apparent in the analysis of internal competitive advantage sources is being dealt with in this paper. A theoretical approach is being applied which is focused on those processes allowing companies to upkeep and enhance their competitiveness, become adapted to changes, and become able to foresee changes in the market. This survey shows the eclectic nature of dynamic capacities bringing in dynamic elements into static-nature theories, and further addresses the biases being apparent in these two approaches both in the theoretical setting and in the managerial practice. This survey also looks into the generation, development and change processes pertaining with …
Learning to Contradict and Standing Up for the Company: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Organizational Dissent, Organizational Assimilatio…
2016
This study explored relationships between organizational assimilation, organizational reputation, and organizational dissent. Survey data collection using standard instruments was conducted with a ...