Mechanisms for Organizational Learning LO18921

vprewitt@bellsouth.net
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:36:54 -0400

Replying to LO18910 --

Richard Karash wrote:

> In other words, rephrasing just a bit, "the extreme question is how can
> organizations learn even if the individual people in the organizations do
> not learn."
> ...snip...
>
> Now, beyond the thought experiment, I doubt we could find relevant examples
> in which org learning occured but individual learning did not. That is,
> where the org increased it's capacity for effective action but no
> individual increased theirs.

The first thought that came to my mind when reading this post was the U.S.
Army and/or intelligence systems. Through a systematic, orchestrated, and
highly structured set of rules, assumptions, culture, etc. a collective
group of people DO grow the organizations' knowledge and tries pretty hard
to avoid letting the individual get much further ahead than the pack.
Individualism is disdained, a cultural factor missing from most
industrialized and northern hemisphere nations.

kind regards,
Vana Prewitt
vprewitt@bellsouth.net

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