Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace » (1st Edition)

What is a learning organization? What are the advantages of creating one? Why should a company want to become a learning organization? Where does one start?

Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars of this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example.

Lead authors include Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, London Business School's Professor Emeritus Charles Handy, and MlT's Fred Kofman and Peter Senge.

The thirty-two essays in this comprehensive collection are presented in four main parts:

1. Guiding Ideas

2. Theories/Methods/Processes

3. Infrastructure

4. Arenas of Practice

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Contributors present concepts, theories, applications, and examples on creating a culture of learning in business organizations. They discuss the value and benefits of learning organizations and explore methods such as strategic dialogue, coaching, and learning laboratories, with half of the book devoted to infrastructure, models, and case studies for building corporate learning communities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)