Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization

The concept of the 'learning organization' is one of the most popular management ideas of the last few decades. Since it was conceived as an idea in its own right, it has been given various definitions and meanings, such that we are still faced with the question as to whether any unified understanding of what the learning organization really is can be established. This Handbook offers extensive reviews of both new and traditional perspectives on the concept and provides suggestions for how the learning organization can best be defined, practiced, studied, and developed in future research. With contributions from long-standing scholars in the field as well as those new to the area, this book aims to bridge the gap between traditional and more critical perspectives, and in doing so find alternative features and angles to take the idea forward.

In addition to elaborating on and developing older definitions of the learning organization and suggesting updated and even new definitions, the chapters also provide focused explorations on pertinent aspects of the learning organization such as ambidexterity, gender inclusivity, and systems thinking. They also survey organizations that have made efforts towards becoming learning organizations, how the learning organization can best be measured and studied, and the universality of the idea itself.

Some of the questions raised in this book are answered, or at least given tentative answers, while other questions are left open. In this way, the book has the ambition to take the learning organization an important step further, whilst having no intentions to take any final step; instead, the intention is that others will endeavour to continue where this book stops.

Sommario

• Part I: Introduction


• 1: Anders Örtenblad: Background and Introduction to the Learning Organization


• 2: Siu Loon Hoe: The Topicality of the Learning Organization: Is the Concept Still Relevant Today?


• Part II: Definitions and Meanings of the 'Learning Organization'


• 3: Hong T.M. Bui: Senge's Learning Organization: Development of the Learning Organization Model


• 4: Karen E. Watkins and Victoria J. Marsick: Conceptualizing an Organization That Learns


• 5: Patrick J. Healy: Garvin's Learning Organization: A Process Perspective on Learning for Implementation, Improvement, and Innovation


• 6: Mike Pedler, Tom Boydell, and John Burgoyne: Learning Company: The Learning Organization According to Pedler, Burgoyne, and Boydell


• 7: Michael J. Marquardt: Building Learning Organizations with Action Learning


• 8: Bob Garratt: Personal Paradoxes in Learning to Design 'The Learning Organization'


• 9: Hong T.M. Bui: On Definitions of the Learning Organization: Toward a New Definition of Learning Organization


• Part III: Aspects of the Learning Organization


• 10: Max Visser and Paul Tosey: Learning in the Learning Organization: Concepts and Antecedents


• 11: Alice Lam: Ambidextrous Learning Organizations


• 12: Peter Hawkins: How the Learning Organization Learns and its Culture Coevolves


• 13: Robert L. Flood and Hanne Finnestrand: A Mighty Step: Critical Systemic Interpretation of the Learning Organization


• 14: Anthony DiBella: From Learning Organizations to Learning Cultures and More: Evolutions in Theory, Changes in Practice, Continuity of Purpose


• 15: William D. Schneper, David Wernick, and Mary Ann Von Glinow: Stakeholders and the Learning Organization


• 16: Amanda Brazil: What is Needed to Create Gender Inclusive Learning Organizations


• Part IV: Practicing the Learning Organization


• 17: Victoria J. Marsick and Karen E. Watkins: Interventions to Create a Learning Organization


• 18: Nancy M. Dixon: Glimpses of Organizations in the Act of Learning


• 19: Laurie Field: Pegasus or Clever White Horse? In Pursuit of Real Learning Organizations


• Part V: Studying the Learning Organization


• 20: Amy C. Edmondson, Francesca Gino, and Patrick J. Healy: The Learning Organization Survey: Validation of an Instrument to Augment Research on Organizational Learning


• 21: Swee Chua Goh: Measurement of the Learning Organization Construct: A Critical Perspective and Future Directions for Research


• 22: Kyoungshin Kim and Zhenqiu (Laura) Lu: Learning Organization and Organizational Performance


• 23: Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ørding Hansen, and Are Jensen: How Best to Study the Learning Organization


• Part VI: The Universality of the Learning Organization


• 24: Peter Wyer and Shaun Bowman: The Potential To Nurture Small Businesses To Learning Organization Form


• 25: Anders Örtenblad: Contextualizing The Learning Organization: Towards Differentiated Standards


• Part VII: New and Alternative Perspectives on The Learning Organization


• 26: Robert Chia: Becoming a Learning Organization: A Process-Philosophical Perspective


• 27: Helen D. Armstrong: The Learning Organization as a Practice of Becoming Human


• 28: Jacky Hong and Carry K.Y. Mak: The Empire Strikes Back: How Learning Organization Scholars can Learn from the Critiques


• 29: David M. Boje and Grace Ann Rosile: An Antenarrative Amendment to Learning Organization: Theories to Avert Sixth Extinction


• 30: Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Shih-wei Hsu, and Lone Hersted: The Learning Organization: A Critical Analysis and Future Directions


• Part VIII: The Learning Organization in the Future


• 31: Tom Boydell, Mike Pedler, and John Burgoyne: The Future of the Learning Organization


• 32: Anders Örtenblad: Suggestions for Future Research on the Learning Organization

Info autore

Anders Örtenblad is Professor of Work Life Science at University of Agder, Norway. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Learning Organization, and has published articles on the learning organization and organizational learning in journals such as Management Learning and International Journal of Management Reviews. Among books he has edited are a series of volumes on the adaptation of management ideas for various industries, sectors, national cultures, and religions, including the Handbook of Research on The Learning Organization: Adaptation and Context (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013).

Riassunto

The idea, or rather ideas, of the learning organization have for several decades been considered as an ideal. This Handbook aims to provide an overview of what the learning organization is (and is not), how it may be utilized and studied, its strengths and weaknesses, and the universality and future of the idea.

Testo aggiuntivo

This is a big book full of original writing on a range of ideas, old and new, and it will be a valuable addition to the library of any university where the workings of organizations are researched and taught.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anders (Professor of Work Life Science Oertenblad, Anders (Professor of Work Life Science Ortenblad
• Con la collaborazione di: Anders Ortenblad (Editore), Anders (Professor of Work Life Science Ortenblad (Editore), Anders Örtenblad (Editore), Ortenblad Anders (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198832355
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883235-5
• Pagine: 540
• Serie: Oxford Handbooks
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational, Business innovation, Organizational theory & behaviour, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Organizational theory and behaviour