Eight Steps to Sustainable Organizational Learning - How to Tackle Search and Transfer Barriers

This book describes the journey of developing and implementing a global knowledge sharing strategy at the multinational project development and construction company Skanska. The strategy described is based on a "people-to-people" approach and covers four different strategic business units with more than 50,000 employees. It shows how the introduction of knowledge management has led to improved collaboration on customers and increased sales, as well as quality improvements and higher employee satisfaction. The book introduces a 8-step framework for achieving sustainable organizational learning and provides a theoretical introduction to the field of knowledge management and cognitive pedagogy.

List of contents

Introduction.- Knowledge and learning.- Frameworks and models for learning.- The individual at the Center of learning process.- From Differentiation to Integration.- The final word.

Product details

• Authors: Theresia Olsson Neve
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2016
• EAN: 9783319376936
• ISBN: 978-3-31-937693-6
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 270 g
• Illustrations: X, 156 p. 26 illus., 9 illus. in color.
• Series: Management for Professionals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; B, Planning, Human Resource Management, Organization, Business and Management, Organizational theory & behaviour, IT in Business, Information Technology, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel Management, Management science, Business—Data processing, Business applications