Action Learning and the Learning Organization: Building Learning Capacity in Individuals, Groups and Organizations

Judy O’Neil, Karen E. Watkins and Victoria J. Marsick

Chapter 10 in Action Learning and its Applications, 2010, pp 154-165 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Moving to healthy, open organizations has been a fundamental aim of organization development (OD) since Kurt Lewin’s (1951) early work contrasting authoritarian and democratic groups. Later, Rensis Likert’s System 4 framework (1967) offered a set of dimensions or organizational capacities that enable the organization to learn from its environment, people and markets. Recent focus on creating learning organizations led to the evolution of a number of interventions that help organizations embed these critical capacities. Perhaps no other intervention has the potential of action learning to build capacities at the individual, group and organizational levels.

Keywords: Action Learning; Learn Organization; Human Resource Development; Organizational Capacity; Team Learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250741_10

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