DTIC ADA625029: Learning Organisations: A Literature Review and Cri... | |
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A literature review on the Learning Organisation field | |
was conducted, examining the dominant assumptions and | |
creating a solid foundation for the practical application | |
of the learning organisation concept to the Australian | |
Army. In order to examine the literature's dominant | |
assumptions, we asked the following questions: (i) What | |
are the various meanings attributed to learning | |
organisations?; (ii) What sorts of learnings are | |
privileged within the literature?; (iii) What are the key | |
characteristics or building blocks that make up a | |
learning organisation? We discovered that the learning | |
organisation construct represents an evolution from | |
bureaucratic and performance-based organisational form to | |
innovative and flexible organisations. In surveying the | |
literature, other factors found to impact on learning | |
organisations included cognitive, social, cultural, | |
technological and structural elements. For example, | |
learning organisations apply increasingly sophisticated | |
understanding of knowledge and personnel management to | |
best exploit their social, intellectual and knowledge | |
capital. In contrast, some factors are not adequately | |
explored in the literature; for example, the significance | |
of power relations, hierarchy and authority on learning | |
within and by organisations has not been fully | |
elucidated. There is an increasing number of studies | |
investigating the direct impact of developing a learner- | |
centric approach on organisational outcomes; the number | |
of studies linking learning to improved organisational | |
performance is growing. There are real, significant and | |
measureable benefits of developing the learning | |
capabilities of an organisation. | |
Date Published: 2018-11-06 07:39:43 | |
Identifier: DTIC_ADA625029 | |
Item Size: 68170498 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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