This book advances a design-based approach for the investigation
and creation of sustainable organizations. The learning-by-design
framework is utilized to examine learning in six successful
companies in different industries and national settings and
provides a roadmap for improving systematic learning in
organizations.
* * Investigates learning-by-design in successful companies.
* Focuses on the choices organizations make about the design of
learning mechanisms.
* Built around six detailed case studies taken from different
industries and national settings.
* Provides a framework for improving the conditions for
systematic and sustainable learning in organizations.
* Offers a clear process model for action and change.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. The Critical Need for Learning by Design.
2. Competitive Strategy, Sustainablility and Learning.
3. Individual Competencies, Learning and Performance.
4. Designing Business-focused Teams.
5. Transformation and Learning.
6. Development Processes, Learning and Competitiveness.
7. Knowledge Management Processes and Learning.
8. Learning in Multi Stakeholder Network.
9. Designing Sustainable Learning Organization.
10. Learning by Design: Change and Future.
Index
Circa l’autore
A. B. (Rami) Shani is Professor of Organizational Behavior
and Change at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis
Obispo. He is a visiting Research Professor on the FENIX Programme
at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Peter Docherty is Professor of Services Operations
Management at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Management
(INDEK) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. He
is also a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Working
Life in Stockholm.A. B. (Rami) Shani and Peter Docherty have
collaborated previously on the book Creating Sustainable Work
Systems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice (2002).
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