I am looking for some help in linking, with a reasonable degree of
academic rigour, democracy with organisational learning. Tome there seems
to be an intuitive link but I would appreciate the views of others.
My views of democracy are coming from, amongst others, the work of Carol
Gould in "Rething Democracy". She outlines four principles of democracy,
namely:
1. Freedom - the activity of self-development requiring not only the
absence of external constraints but the availablity of appropriate
resources.
2. Equality - the equal rights to the conditions for self-development.
3. Fundamental modes of social relations namely, reciprocity and joint or
common activity.
4. Democratic forms of decision-making which involve equal rights of
participation.
To me, this seems to be very fundamental to organisational learning.
Anybody got any suggestions on the LO side?
Roy Benford
Fulmer, UK
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