Replying to LO25437 --
Vanna asks:
> I'm in the process of identifying an appropriate research
> question for my
> dissertation and thought I would throw this out to the LO list. What
> LO-related research would you love to see? What information have you
> tried to locate without success? What do you believe the
> next step is in
> understanding organizational learning?
I have just finished reading and studying Art Kleiner's "Car Launch". It
describes organizational learning at work in a very large organization.
Some of the questions it poses to me:
- How do we transfer personal or small group mastery to the larger group?
- How do you tell the highest level executives that they are on the top
rung of the ladder of inference and viewing a landscape that no one else
can see?
John
--"John Zavacki" <jzavacki@greenapple.com>
[Host's Note: The book _Car Launch_ documents the efforts of a new vehicle team at a major automaker which used org learning approaches. The book is a classic example of Kleiner and Roth's "Learning History" approach. I highly recommend it. Here's a link, in assoc w/Amazon.com
Car Launch : The Human Side of Managing Change (The Learning History Library) by George Roth (Preface), Art Kleiner (Preface) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195129466/learningorg
..Rick]
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