Learning Organizations: Two Achievers Tania M. Brown OMM 625 Instructor Clifton Howell January 28‚ 2013 Learning Organizations: Two Achievers A learning organization is one‚ which facilitates learning and development of its employees‚ while continuously transforming itself. Organizational learning occurs with an organization skilled at creating‚ acquiring‚ and transferring knowledge‚ and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights. The most successful learning organizations
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0 Learning Organization 0 1 Learning Organizations Introduction In a way those who work in a learning organization are “fully awakened” people. They are engaged in their work‚ striving to reach their potential‚ by sharing the vision of a worthy goal with team colleagues. They have mental models to guide them in the pursuit of personal mastery‚ and their personal goals are in alignment with the mission of the organization. Working in a learning organization is far from being a slave to a job
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Leadership‚ Policy and Change Julian I Abstract This paper will focus on how effective Leadership can influence policy and change in the United States healthcare system. The implementation of new policy‚ program‚ and institutional change is often meant to improve the quality of the nation’s ever-changing healthcare system. Several journal articles and texts have been selected particularly with a focus on leadership strategies to improve the quality of healthcare‚ and leadership’s
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definitions of Learning Organization * A learning organization is an organization‚ which facilitates the learning of all its members and continuously transforms itself. ( Pedler‚ Boydell and Burgoyne‚ 1992) * A learning organization has managers who create an environment where the behaviors and practices involved in continuous development are actively encouraged. (Honey‚ 1996) * An organization in which learning is valued‚ and consciously managed and supported. A learning organization develops
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The ‘Learning Organisation’ is a concept first described by Peter Senge as an organisation where people continuously learn and enhance their capabilities to create. It consists of five main disciplines: team learning‚ shared vision‚ mental models‚ personal mastery and systems thinking. These disciplines are dynamic and interact with each other. System thinking is the cornerstone of a true learning organisation and is described as the discipline used to implement the disciplines. In a learning organisation
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LEARNING ORGANIZATION According to Peter Senge (1990: 3) Learning organization are: “…organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire‚ where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured‚ where collective aspiration is set free‚ and where people are continually learning to see the whole together”. Senge argues that organizations should have the sort of culture which allows them to shape there own future to a far greater degree as been
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I. INTRODUCTION The evolution of "Organizational Learning" has started in 1938 when John Dewey‚ in his book "Experience and Education"‚ publicized the concept of experiential learning as an ongoing cycle of activity. But‚ how did this concept emerge? Or‚ what does it really mean for the businesses? In order to understand this‚ we have to analyze the problems and needs. The core idea behind "learning organization" is that organizations of all kinds will not survive‚ let alone thrive‚ if they
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1: Why is shared information so important in a learning organization as compared to an efficient performance organization? Discuss how an organization’s approach to information-sharing might be related to other elements of organization design‚ such as structure‚ tasks‚ strategy‚ and culture. Shared information is so important in a learning organization as compared to an efficient performance organization because in a learning organization it promotes communication and collaboration so that everyone
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CONFLICT STYLE South University LaTonya Brown CHANGE THEORIES “Change revolves around patient behavior‚ and essentially much of the discouragement that nurses‚ staff‚ and advanced practice nurses experience is due to their patients not listening or complying with their treatment protocol‚ both pharmacological and non-pharmacological” (Grossman‚ 2013‚ p. 141). Change is in steps to have a sense of an easing into it by using a gradual process. The steps of changing can go forward and backward
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Organizations in the United States are constantly changing. Some are changing for the better and others are changing for the worse. Those that are successfully changing are most likely considered learning organizations. These learning organizations are constantly learning and incorporating new knowledge into their everyday work. They all have a lot in common in the way they go about their day to day and long term operations. I would like to discuss some specific organizations and why they are considered
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