Management and Organizational Studies 3343A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reg Revans, Jack Welch, The Fifth Discipline

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3343A/B
• Professor: Linda Eligh

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Mos 3343 lecture 2 organizational learning. Organizations that are going to thrive survive and be globally competitive need to embrace a culture where learning is fostered and is experimented with at all levels in the organization. Deliberate process of creating, sharing, diffusing and applying knowledge in organizations. Not simply a focus on current needs or deficiencies, but a look to continuous learning. (cid:498)there is no learning with action and no action without learning(cid:499) (cid:498)it(cid:495)s so simple that it takes ten years for professors to understand it(cid:499) Chris argyris and donald schon (mit, cornell, yale and harvard) advanced. Coined the term (cid:498)organizational learning(cid:499) because it involves many people in the. Action learning can be reduced to a simple formula: l = p + q. Learning = programmed knowledge + questions organization who engage in action learning. Based on teachings of reginald revans (uk) concept of action learning further. Careful monitoring of consequence of such choice.