Organizational Resilience - How Learning Sustains Organizations in Crisis, Disaster, and Breakdown

Informationen zum Autor D. Christopher Kayes is Professor of Management at the George Washington University School of Business. During his tenure as Interim Dean of the School of Business, he led the organization's financial turnaround. He is the author and coauthor of several books. Klappentext In the age of knowledge, organizations survive and thrive only when they learn. All too often, when organizations are confronted with novel or changing situations, the process of learning breaks down and the result is catastrophic. Zusammenfassung In the age of knowledge, organizations survive and thrive only when they learn. All too often, when organizations are confronted with novel or changing situations, the process of learning breaks down and the result is catastrophic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Learning as the Source of Resilience Part I: Experience as the Source of Learning in Organizations Chapter 1: Learning from Experience Chapter 2: The Structure of Learning in Organizations Chapter 3: Learning versus Performance in the Air France Flight 447 Disaster Part II: The Breakdown of Learning Chapter 4: A Review of Failure in Organizations Chapter 5: From Failure to the Breakdown of Learning Chapter 6: How Optimism and Positive Thinking Can Limit Learning Chapter 7: Goal Setting as an Unlikely Threat to Learning Chapter 8: Experience and Decision Making Part III: Building Resilience through Learning Chapter 9: Case Study: Learning From the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq Chapter 10: Revisiting the Universal Dilemma of Learning in Policy, Government, and Organizational Culture Chapter 11: Building Learning in Organizations References Index

Product details

• Authors: D Christopher Kayes, D. Christopher Kayes, D. Christopher (Professor of Management Kayes, Kayes D. Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9780199791057
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979105-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, Business / Economics / Finance, Social, group or collective psychology, Management & management techniques, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Management and management techniques