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Higher educational institutes as learning organizations for employer branding
LENKA, USHA; CHAWLA, SANIYA - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 47 (2015) 5, pp. 265-276
Purpose – Contemporary organizations emphasize upon continuous learning to be able to face the environmental dynamism and further build a learning organization. The purpose of this paper is to reflect the conceptual framework of learning organization, integrating variables at individual, team,...
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On differences between organizational learning and learning organization
Örtenblad, Anders - In: The Learning Organization 8 (2001) 3, pp. 125-133
This conceptual paper looks at and discusses differences between the concepts of organizational learning and (the) learning organization. Since there still seems to be confusion regarding the meaning of the two concepts, aims to clarify the two main existing distinctions – that organizational...
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Multicultural competence and trust: a new road for logistics management?
Canen, Alberto G.; Canen, Ana - In: Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal 11 (2004) 3, pp. 38-53
The present paper aims to discuss the concept of competence from a multicultural perspective, for organisational … success. It argues that models that view competence as a sum of competencies for management development within organisations …. It analyses theoretical approaches to the concept of competence in organisations, focusing particularly on those that …
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Supply chain management and Learning Organization: a merging of literatures
Opengart, Rose - In: International Journal of Commerce and Management 25 (2015) 2, pp. 183-195
Purpose – This paper aims to examine the potential of applying the concept of the Learning Organization to the understanding of, and potentially the assessment of, an organization's supply chain collaboration capability. Collaborative supply chain management (SCM) literature was transposed...
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Promoting self-directed learning in a learning organization: tools and practices
Rana, Sowath; Ardichvili, Alexandre; Polesello, Daiane - In: European Journal of Training and Development 40 (2016) 7, pp. 470-489
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine a set of practices that can help promote self-directed learning (SDL) in congruence with the goals of developing and maintaining a learning organization. Design/methodology/approach Findings from this study were derived from an extensive review of...
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Reinterpreting the learning organisation
Stewart, Deb - In: The Learning Organization 8 (2001) 4, pp. 141-152
Examines the theoretical and practical development of the concept of the learning organisation (LO). Some theorists have used the term LO interchangeably with organisational learning, while others have drawn distinctions between the two. Provides a brief review of the current LO literature in...
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Consciousness development for the learning organization
Heaton, Dennis - In: The Learning Organization 24 (2017) 6, pp. 401-407
Purpose This paper presents a philosophical and practical discussion of the role of development of consciousness for realization of a learning organization. Consciousness is the capacity to know, the capacity to learn. As the knower is, so is the knowledge. Development of consciousness can lead...
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Towards a philosophical understanding of documentation: a Dooyeweerdian framework
Basden, A.; Burke, M.E. - In: Journal of Documentation 60 (2004) 4, pp. 352-370
Documents as we encounter them in everyday life are complex and diverse things, whether on paper, computer disk or on the World Wide Web. They play many roles vis‐à‐vis human beings, and the humans engaged with them have diverse responsibilities that are not always easy to fulfil. Added to...
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Classification systems in the light of sociology of knowledge
Keshet, Yael - In: Journal of Documentation 67 (2011) 1, pp. 144-158
Purpose – Classification is an important process in making sense of the world, and has a pronounced social dimension. This paper aims to compare folksonomy, a new social classification system currently being developed on the web, with conventional taxonomy in the light of theoretical...
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Concept theory and semiotics in knowledge organization
Friedman, Alon; Thellefsen, Martin - In: Journal of Documentation 67 (2011) 4, pp. 644-674
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the basics of semiotic analysis and concept theory that represent two dominant approaches to knowledge representation, and explore how these approaches are fruitful for knowledge organization. Design/methodology/approach – In particular the...
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