Learning by Design Building Sustainable Organizations

by Shani, A. B. (Rami); Docherty, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780631232766
• ISBN10: 0631232761
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book advances a design-based approach for the investigation and creation of sustainable organizations. The learning-by-design framework is utilized to examine learning in six successful companies in different industries and national settings and provides a roadmap for improving systematic learning in organizations. Investigates learning-by-design in successful companies. Focuses on the choices organizations make about the design of learning mechanisms. Built around six detailed case studies taken from different industries and national settings. Provides a framework for improving the conditions for systematic and sustainable learning in organizations. Offers a clear process model for action and change.

Author Biography

A. B. (Rami) Shani is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a visiting Research Professor on the FENIX Programme at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.

Peter Docherty is Professor of Services Operations Management at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. He is also a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Working Life in Stockholm.A. B. (Rami) Shani and Peter Docherty have collaborated previously on the book Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice (2002).

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	vii
About the Authors	ix
Foreword	x
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
The Critical Need for Learning by Design	1	(11)
Competitive Strategy, Sustainability and Learning	12	(19)
Individual Competence Development, Learning and Performance	31	(25)
Designing Business-Focused Teams	56	(26)
Transformation and Learning	82	(24)
Development Processes, Learning and Competitiveness	106	(21)
Knowledge Management Processes and Learning	127	(18)
Learning in a Networked Organization	145	(18)
Designing a Sustainable Learning Organization	163	(23)
Learning by Design: Change and Future	186	(16)
Index	202