A. B. Shani (Rami), Peter Docherty

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Learning by Design (eBook, PDF)

Building Sustainable Organizations

Beschreibung

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.

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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405142083
• Artikelnr.: 38280373

Rezensionen

"It provides a much-needed bridge from an organizationallearning literature that is often abstract and idiosyncratic toconcrete organizational learning mechanisms that can make the spacefor adaptive learning to occur for individuals, teams and theorganization. Shani and Docherty have created a book that isvaluable for both scholars and practitioners in management andorganizational learning." David A. Kolb, Case WesternReserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

"Collective design is certainly one of the main issues forthe advancement of management and social sciences, and by adoptinga learning perspective Shani and Docherty offer fresh, perfectlygrounded, and valuable views to the field, both in theory andpractice." Armand Hatchuel, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris,France

"These authors have been pioneers in the area oforganizational learning. The insights and experience on which theydraw, backed by recent case examples, are a major strength of thebook and make it a valuable resource for practitioners in industryand for students of organizational learning and change."Bengt Stymne, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm,Sweden

"This book belongs to the management literature, but as so fewlibraries have become learning organisations that it would be goodif more managers read books like this one" ElectronicLibrary