Examines popular theories of learning in organizations to highlight their limitations for reform and change. Divides … learning approaches into four general strategies ‐ organizational learning, learning organization, learning environment, and … “learning space”. Examines how issues of power, diversity, indeterminacy and hierarchy are treated in each approach and the …

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 …

that learning and change have not been effective. Change involves a subject or self, who is acting, and an object which is … acted on. Until now there has been an imbalanced focus on the object. In order to achieve more effective learning ‐ through … many of the shortcomings of contemporary learning and change strategies. In order to implement in practice the expanded …

learning in understructured environments, using the development of the power sector in Asia as the core example.  …

Presents an argument for the use of group decision support systems (GDSS) in the promotion of organizational learning …. The combination of reflection, analysis, and openness that such systems encourage is postulated to encourage the learning … learning which emphasizes that learning can occur at the organizational level through processes.  …

recently privatised utility. The aim of the research is to synthesise a learning process model from relevant learning theory … organisational learning, resulting in continuous improvement and innovation in business processes. The learning process model has … been developed, and was the subject of an article in The Learning Organisation (Buckler, 1996). Workshops, based on the …

The learning organisation is a concept and, as with any complex concept, embodies sets of values, goals and beliefs. As … challenge in the future. It is suggested that the learning organisation concept can be thought of as the lowest of a three …‐stage conceptual hierarchy of learning‐wisdom‐enlightenment. The paper explores the characteristics of the wise organisation and …

Describes an example of a successful learning programme focused on customer satisfaction. Reports on a programme for …

at promoting and developing a series of new and innovative learning and training opportunities in support of a more … paper is a commentary on the progress made in conceiving, creating, developing and applying a learning and change process in …