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Efficacy‐information for implementing learning in construction

Jawahar Nesan, L. - In: The Learning Organization 11 (2004) 1, pp. 45-66

This paper, while emphasizing the linkage between the concepts of “empowerment” and “learning”, argues that empowerment …‐information”, being a derivative of empowerment, helps influence employees’ behavior in seeking, managing and utilizing knowledge at job …

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Organizational learning, change and power: toward a practice‐theory framework

Ford, Randal - In: The Learning Organization 13 (2006) 5, pp. 495-524

combines two advocated views in using power (position power and empowerment) into a framework of reciprocal‐relational power …

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Empowerment, knowledge conversion and dimensions of organizational learning

Van Grinsven, Marlieke; Visser, Max - In: The Learning Organization 18 (2011) 5, pp. 378-391

discuss the effects of empowerment and knowledge conversion, two factors often considered to be important antecedents of … literature on learning organizations, organizational learning, empowerment and knowledge conversion. Findings – It is found that … both antecedents have contradictory effects on two dimensions of organizational learning. Empowerment affects second …

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Down in the trenches: learning in a learning organization

Wright, Phillip C.; Belcourt, Monica - In: The Learning Organization 2 (1995) 1, pp. 34-38

Based on the argument that employees cannot be empowered until they are competent performers, illustrates how on‐the‐job training (OJT) is essential to operationalizing learning organization concepts. While not a lost art, OJT needs to be revisited as a cornerstone of training theory and...

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Enhancing organizational performance by strengthening diversity and unity

Harung, Harald S.; Martens Harung, Lise - In: The Learning Organization 2 (1995) 3, pp. 9-21

indeed encourage it through empowerment, decentralization and self‐management. Second, we need to integrate the differences …

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Impediments to empowerment and learning within organizations

Field, Laurie - In: The Learning Organization 4 (1997) 4, pp. 149-158

Looks at the concepts of “empowerment” and “learning”, and examines the difficulties in making “empowered learning” a … reality. Drawing on a series of case studies in the Australian manufacturing industry, shows that empowerment and learning … present challenges for both managers and employees. For managers, empowerment and learning raise the prospect of loss of …

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Managing the empowerment of employees to address issues of inter‐employee co‐operation, communication and work redesign

Fraser, Kym; Novak, Joseph - In: The Learning Organization 5 (1998) 3, pp. 109-120

This paper reports on the outcomes of a study in a service industry in which concept maps were used to facilitate the process of employees at all levels of an organisation discussing and negotiating work issues. The use of the maps in the discussions facilitated inter‐employee co‐operation...

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The responsibilities of members in an organization that is learning

Dixon, Nancy M. - In: The Learning Organization 5 (1998) 4, pp. 161-167

As organizations move toward organizational learning the responsibilities of members change. Organizational members, themselves, should be giving consideration to what these new responsibilities should be, rather than leaving this task to management. Six possible responsibilities are suggested...

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Empowerment, coercive persuasion and organizational learning: do they connect?

Schein, Edgar H. - In: The Learning Organization 6 (1999) 4, pp. 163-172

Although organizational learning is often defined as the result of many individuals learning generatively in an organizational context, the argument is made that such learning is de facto coercive persuasion. Generative learning by the individual requires free choice of exit if and when...

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The influence of perceived organizational support on dimensions of learning organization

Salehzadeh, Reza; Asadi, Ali; Khazaei Pool, Javad; Reza … - In: The Learning Organization 21 (2014) 3, pp. 206-219

continuous learning, dialogue and inquiry, team learning, embedded system, empowerment, system connection and strategic …

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