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	Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations: An Overview
		Argyris (1977) defines organizational learning as the process of "detection and correction of errors." In his view organizations learn through individuals acting as agents for them: "The individuals' learning activities, in turn, are facilitated or inhibited by an ecological system of factors that may be called an organizational learning system" (p.
		Weick (1991) argues that the defining property of learning is the combination of same stimulus and different responses, however it is rare in organizations meaning either organizations don't learn or that organizations learn but in nontraditional ways.
		Or else, he argues, Organizational Learning perhaps involves a different kind of learning than has been described in the past: "the process within the organization by which knowledge about action-outcome relationships and the effect of the environment on these relationships is developed" (Duncan and Weiss 1979).
	www.kmbook.com /orglrng.htm (1766 words)

	Organizational learning
		Learning, from the viewpoint of LPP, essentially involves becoming an "insider." Learners do not receive or even construct abstract, "objective," individual knowledge; rather, they learn to function in a community--be it a community of nuclear physicists, cabinet makers, high school classmates, street-corner society, or, as in the case under study, service technicians.
		Learning about new devices, such as the machines Orr's technicians worked with, is best understood (and best achieved) in the context of the community in which the devices are used and that community's particular interpretive conventions.
		Learning is fostered by fostering access to and membership of the target community-of-practice, not by explicating abstractions of individual practice.
	www2.parc.com /ops/members/brown/papers/orglearning.html (9699 words)

	chris argyris, double-loop learning and organizational learning @ the encyclopedia of informal education
		Such learning may then lead to an alteration in the governing variables and, thus, a shift in the way in which strategies and consequences are framed.
		For organizational learning to occur, ‘learning agents’, discoveries, inventions, and evaluations must be embedded in organizational memory’ (Argyris and Schön 1978: 19).
		In the experiential learning model of Kolb (1984) the educator is in essence a facilitator of a person’s learning cycle.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/argyris.htm (4841 words)

	Organizational Learning and Information Systems
		Dodgson describes organizational learning as "the way firms build, supplement, and organize knowledge and routines around their activities and within their cultures and adapt and develop organizational efficiency by improving the use of the broad skills of their workforces" (1993: 377).
		Organizations learn in order to be improve their adaptability and efficiency during times of change (Dodgson, 1993).
		Learning occurs not only due to knowledge acquisition from outside the organization but also due to the rearrangement of existing knowledge, the revision of previous knowledge structures, and the building and revision of theories.
	www.e-papyrus.com /personal/orglrn.html (4959 words)

	Groupware and Organizational Learning
		Learning Organization: When the organization as a whole and the people who comprise it are continually increasing their capacity to produce the results they really want to produce.
		Much more effective for the Organizational Learning applications at all three levels is a browsing paradigm[10] which supports: 1) seeking items when you are interested, not when they arrive in your mailbox; 2) a history of the discussion that's easy to access (e.g.
		Groupware is a technology, the Learning Organization is an approach to organizational change and continuous improvement; the two are synergistic and mutually supportive.
	world.std.com /~rkarash/GW-OL (3539 words)

	Measuring Organizational Learning
		Although he readily acknowledged that measurement was a growing issue in the area of organizational learning, he observed that to his knowledge little progress had been made.
		Organizational learning is the acquisition, application, and mastery, of new tools and methods that allow more rapid improvement of those processes whose improvement is critical to the success of the organization.
		Organizations continuously move between periods when they are learning and periods when they are applying their newly acquired knowledge.
	www.schneiderman.com /The_Art_of_PM/measuring_learning/learning.htm (737 words)

	Transforming EPSS to Support Organizational Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If organizations are to remain competitive, they must adopt new ways of capturing, organizing, storing and accessing information from their internal and external environments.
		If an organization is to remain competitive and learn from the vast ocean of knowledge created by the technology explosion, it must adopt a systematic network to capture and store information in an accessible format.
		Learning is a continuous and strategically employed system within the organization at all levels.
	www.centurionsys.com /rtcl65.html (4247 words)

	Implementing Business Intelligence Systems: An Organizational Learning Approach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The link between BI and the organization that uses it is that an organization collectively is a cognitive system: it senses the environment, makes a representation of it, acts on the basis of the representation and learns from the results of its actions, storing its experience as institutional memory.
		An organizational learning framework for successfully implementing BI change will have to consider both: the type of change that the BI system is intended to support (single- or double-loop) and, how the components of organizational knowledge (institutional memory) are affected.
		The framework shows the scope of the learning or change effort for a BI implementation (single-loop and double-loop) matched to the levels of organizational knowledge that the effort entails.
	www.dmreview.com /master.cfm?NavID=55&EdID=7610 (2121 words)

	Organizational Learning and Memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The concept of organizational learning was proposed in late seventies by Argyris and Schon (1978), who are the pioneers of OL research.
		Different from past learning researches which were usually done in the psychology and education, learning researches of the nineties take different perspective--organizations which learn and create knowledge, or organizational learning.
		Researchers from psychology are trained to develop the learning theories and those from education usually have interest in application of theories and models to the diverse learning institutions such as school and corporation.
	www.socialresearchmethods.net /Gallery/cho/cho.htm (719 words)

	Learning Organization - Management - Management Portal
		Establishing 'a learning organization' where horizontal interaction and communication inside and across the borders of the firm is a major factor promoting knowledge creation in the context of a learning economy.
		This paper examines vicarious team learning - the activities by which a team learns key aspects of its task from the similar experiences of others outside the team - as a means to understanding learning and performance differences across teams.
		The Learning Lexicon is an etymological dictionary that allows you to gain a deeper sense of common words such as "learning" and "system" by tracing them back to their original roots.
	www.themanager.org /Knowledgebase/Management/Learning.htm (615 words)

	About Organizational Learning
		The field of organizational learning explores ways to design organizations so that they fulfill their function effectively, encourage people to reach their full potential, and, at the same time, help the world to be a better place.
		Team learning is what happens when a group of people working on something together experiences that rare feeling of synergy and productiveness that happens when you're "in the groove." When a team is truly learning, the group as a whole becomes much more than just the sum of its parts.
		Shared vision emerges when everyone in an organization understands what the organization is trying to do, is genuinely committed to achieving that vision, and clearly grasps how his or her role in the organization can contribute to making the vision real.
	www.pegasuscom.com /aboutol.html (1298 words)

	Suffolk University: EHS/HRLPP M.S. Adult and Organizational Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Master of Science in Adult and Organizational Learning Program may be tailored to meet your individual needs and career objectives.
		All students enrolled in the Master of Science in Adult and Organization Learning Program are required to pursue an internship.
		“Organizational Learning is a set of processes and structures for supporting continuous learning in the workplace.
	www.suffolk.edu /cas/hrlpp/msaol.html (660 words)

	Dance of Change
		Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn (Don Michael) is published, a book for policy makers that sets out the idea of organizational learning for the first time.
		The Center for Organizational Learning is formed at MIT, with Senge as director, and with Ed Schein, Chris Argyris, Arie de Geus, Ray Stata, and Bill O'Brien as key advisors and governors.
		The popularity of the "learning organization" community is recognized when 350 people from around the world gather for four days at a conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
	www.fieldbook.com /DoC/DOCtimeline.html (1219 words)

	Organizational Learning is No Accident : HBS Working Knowledge
		Organizations rarely build in time to do thoughtful learning, and when they do, that time is the first to go when emergencies beckon.
		And that’s just in the easy case; learning that your phone system is the bottleneck in your customer service department may demand reworking physical plant and equipment in several locations.
		Despite the many reasons why learning is hard for individuals and even harder for organizations, it’s just a behavior that can become a habit.
	hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu /item.jhtml?id=3483&t=srobbins (1454 words)

	How Groupware Accelerates Organizational Learning
		Schrage believes companies tend to treat learning primarily as a static transfer of information from experts to non-experts rather than a dynamic, collaborative effort to add new value and create new knowledge.
		However, he contends groupware technologies are making people aware that "unless they change how they behave, unless they change their definition of learning from symbol transfer to action and experience" they will not succeed in the new economy.
		"Organizations are just beginning to realize that, at this point, their greatest benefits come from not only the knowledge and experience of people who work there, but the interactions and relationships [within the] organization," says Coleman.
	www.cvm.tamu.edu /wklemm/britton.html (1351 words)

	Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Timeline of Learning Organization Concepts (Peter Senge, et.
		Toward a Knowledge Ecology for Organizational White-Waters (1998)
		Senge, Kleiner, Roberts, Ross, Roth and Smith Dance of Change: the Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (1999)
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~mryder/itc_data/org_learning.html (102 words)

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		Double-loop learning must also deal with undiscussability, the undiscussability of the undiscussable, and the puzzling fact that most individuals are unaware of their causal contribution to these organizational features, yet are aware of the causal contributions of others." (p.
		Chapter 8: Think of people's current theory in use as Model I. To help people learn, a Model II strategy needs to be developed: "valid information, free and informed choice, and internal commitment to choices made in order to monitor the effectiveness of their implementation." (p.
		In order to be able to comprehend all the discreet bits of data about behavior, A has some scheme of organization that allows him to chalk up many instances of behavior as similar in some sense and to store them all under one category.
	home.nycap.rr.com /klarsen/learnorg/argyr2.html (1118 words)

	SFB 504 glossary: Organizational learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thus, it is not only the scholars of organization studies who are interested in the phenomenon of OL but also the practitioners who have to deal with the subject of OL.
		In general, it is assumed that adaptive learning comes along with a lower degree of organizational change.
		which parts of the environment the organization should listen to, and search rules that stir the organization in a particular way to find problem-solutions are adapted to the experiences that are made within the organization.
	www.sfb504.uni-mannheim.de /glossary/orglearn.htm (427 words)

	Organizational Learning Resources
		A selection of web-based resources on organizational learning, organizational cognition, information management, knowledge management, environment scanning, and scenario planning.
		The Knowing Organization presented at the Wittenburg Castle Conference hosted by KPMG and Nolan Norton (Netherlands), June 10, 1998.
		A similar presentation was made at the seminar on knowledge management organized by INETI in Lisbon, June 18, 1998.
	choo.fis.utoronto.ca /FIS/OrgCog/Orgcog.html (482 words)

	Organization Transitions, Inc. - Organizational Learning, Learning Organization, Team Learning, Organization ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Your firm's ability to learn is essential to adapt to constant change and to prosper in an increasingly competitive environment.
		Organization Transitions, Inc. uses a cost-effective approach to enhance your own capacity to:
		Organization Transitions will customize a set of interventions centered around Building Organizational Learning Capability, Organization Redesign, Culture Change, or Change Management.
	www.orgtransitions.com (108 words)

	ARL/OLMS Organizational Learning Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Libraries and consortia may also choose the opportunity to host learning events at "home" with the OLMS learning-on-site services.
		Custom-Designed Learning Events are available to libraries and consortia, providing the opportunity to contract with OLMS faculty to design, tailor, and deliver learning events to meet specific needs.
		OLMS Adjunct Faculty incorporate new research on service delivery and marketing as well as organizational effectiveness to best design a proposal and engage in a thoughtful consulting process.
	www.arl.org /training (254 words)

	OUP: Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge: Dierkes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In an era of far-reaching changes, issues of Organizational Learning are high on the agenda of social scientists, managers and consultants worldwide as they seek to adapt to new environments.
		The Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of how the concept of Organizational Learning emerged, how it has been used and debated, and where it may be going.
		The next sections examine the development of learning practices and provides case studies to illustrate Organizational Learning and knowledge creation.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-829583-9 (1429 words)

	Society for Organizational Learning
		Examining the successes and challenges of a broad array of projects, the new chapters outline the "state of the art" of organizational learning, and present 8 strategies to employ in service of that art.
		In this issue we consider the consequences of culture for learning in practice, and benefit from a diverse set of illustrations, including an article by MIT Professor Emeritus Ed Schein available in print and as an audio download.
		Over 400 consultants, researchers, educators, and practitioners gathered in Vienna, Austria during the week of 13 September to examine how innovation is a critical component of organizational or community life.
	www.solonline.org (469 words)

	Miraculous intersections within learning constituencies
		A perturbation in the flow - an involuntary 'drop-out' or 'disconnect' in the flow of attention, engagement or interaction
		in the flow of an individual's interactions with any "resource" intended to support or facilitate their learning, performing, participating, using or enjoying...
		For the people and organizations that benefit, profit or are responsible for providing the resources, the
	www.implicity.org /miracle.htm (162 words)

	Jossey-Bass::Leading Organizational Learning: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge
		Leading Organizational Learning brings together today’s top thinkers in organizational learning—including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought and industry leaders.
		This handbook helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledge sharing within their organizations. This one-of-a-kind volume is filled with chapters that directly address the most current ideas, concepts, and practices on the topic of organizational learning.
		Acclaimed authors, world-renowned thought, global, and industry leaders, managing directors, and presidents of leading organizations have contributed their original essays to this provocative collection.
	www.josseybass.com /WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787972185.html (431 words)

	Business Technology Management and Knowledge Management Research Network
		Knowledge Management, Intellectual Capital, Organizational Learning, Organizational Learning, more,..
		KM for Organizational White-Waters: An Ecological Framework, Knowledge Management, 1999
		Extending the Technology Acceptance Model to Account for Social Influence, HICSS Proc.
	www.brint.com (622 words)

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