POL POYTECHNIC OF NAMIBIA Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business
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Student’s Signature………… (Signed below) …….... Date: 28 September 2012 SURNAME & | Mr. Anton Scheun | ……………... | FIRST NAME: | | | STUDENT NUMBER: | | | COURSE TITLE: | Masters in Leadership and Change Management | | MODULE TITLE | ODOrganisational Development | | MODULE FACILITATOR: | Dr. S. Pillay | | ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE: | 10 October 2012 | |
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Mr. ANTON SCHEUN
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ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. Learning Organisation
A Learning Organisation is organisations or enterprises that continuously needs to learn and renew themselves. This indeed has many advantages for both the individual and organisation in that continuous transferring of knowledge and changing of behaviours takes place. The best way to implement such intervention, to become a learning organisation, is to link it to the Strategic, Tactical, Operational and Individual Plans of staff members in the organisation. This will ensure integration and everyone contributing to the achievement of the goals and objectives of the enterprise. By so doing, members and the