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4 Chapter 15 Change Leadership and Stress
4 Planning Ahead
– What is a learning organization?
– What are the challenges of change leadership?
– What is organization development?
– What are the implications of job and workplace stress?
4 Learning Organizations and Innovation
4 What is a Learning Organization?
– a company that is able to continuously change and improve based on the lessons of experience
– able to change due to the people, values and systems
4 Learning Organizations and Innovation
4 Characteristics of learning organizations:
– Everyone sets aside the old ways of thinking.
– Everyone becomes self-aware and open to others.
– Everyone learns how the whole organization works.
– Everyone understands and agrees to a plan of action.
– Everyone works together to accomplish the plan.
4 The Nature of Innovation
4 Innovation
– Process of creating new ideas and putting them into practice
• process: better ways of doing things
• product: creation of new or improved goods and services
4 The Nature of Innovation
4 Staffing