Health care policy and practice are frequently driven by government mandate. What role does organizational learning have in government‐directed organizational change and what kind of organizational learning might we expect from legislated procedure? In 1983, a task force on indigent health...

Using the analogy of expensive trains heading for a crash, asserts that business schools must learn to do what they teach – i.e. become learning organizations – if they are to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. Offers advice to schools on how to change, describing learning...

Charts the development of the training industry from the 1960s training boards to the new training and enterprise councils. Decries the rapid proliferation of business schools, suggesting that the provision of management training has become a production line. Asserts that change and flatter...

Brings up and examines the concept of a business school as a learning organization. Discusses the issue of change as a stimulus to learning ‐ as businesses face new challenges, so, therefore, do business schools ‐ hence the necessity to become a learning organization. Proposes the idea of...

States that change is a topic of crucial concern to all organizations in these turbulent business times. Its impact increasingly leads to business demise, in spite of the wealth of information purporting to help managers solve change‐related problems. Contends that, in dealing with change, and...

Organizations are immersed in their myths and stories which they proclaim through their annual reports, budgets and other formal and informal communications and enact through their “biography”. These stories are seen as “stories within a story”. Organizational stories are governed by a...

Establishes our perspective for shared organizational learning processes, cycles, and systems. These learning phenomena are usually tacit, i.e. the organization is only dimly aware of them. These tacit phenomena drive both decision and action and, because they are tacit, they are...

The United Nations Staff College Project (UNSCP), conceived in 1996 as a project with an initial life‐span of five years, has been entrusted by the United Nations to the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin. The college aims at promoting and developing a series of new and...

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...

We live during an era in which the pace and scope of change are unprecedented. This is particularly true in the Asia‐Pacific region where rapid growth has challenged the capacity of people and organizations to adapt. It has become increasingly clear that learning is now the keystone to...