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.
Author(s): A. B. (Rami) Shani, Peter Docherty
Edition: 1
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 240
Figures......Page 6
Tables......Page 7
About the Authors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 17
1 The Critical Need for Learning by Design......Page 21
2 Competitive Strategy, Sustainability and Learning......Page 32
3 Individual Competence Development, Learning and Performance......Page 51
4 Designing Business-Focused Teams......Page 76
5 Transformation and Learning......Page 102
6 Development Processes, Learning and Competitiveness 1 6......Page 126
7 Knowledge Management Processes and Learning 1......Page 147
8 Learning in a Networked Organization......Page 165
9 Designing a Sustainable Learning Organization......Page 183
10 Learning by Design: Change and Future......Page 206
Index......Page 222
