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This radical text presents central management questions that managers and students need to work with and understand. Key debates in management theory are taken out of their academic setting and discussed in relation to management experience. Exercises, examples, illustrations and summaries bring the problems and dilemmas alive for the student. From people management to organizational culture; leadership to learning; institutional power to individual innovation; the multi-faceted territory of management is explored and opened up.
Managing Organizational Learning: Has the time come or Gone?
Managing Organizational Learning: Has the time come or Gone?
'That organizations learn is an idea whose time has come,’ argues Mirvis.1 This comment emerges after nearly fifty years of foundation work in related disciplines, such as physics, biology, cybernetics and psychology and particularly since the publication of Peter Senge's 1990 book, The Fifth Discipline.2 The result has been more than six times as many academic articles on organizational learning during the 1990s than in the 1980s3 (see Supplementary Reading box). Interest in organizational learning stems from both practical and theoretical sources. Insofar as management practice is concerned, organizational learning is attracting interest because of its links to action — change and innovation4 — as well as its ...
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