Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization or Company Officer Promotional Case Studies

Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: Developments in Theory and Practice

Author: Mark Easterby Smith

'The introduction chaper by Mark Easterby-Smith and Luis Araujo introduces the reader to the unresolved issues with which the field is still grappling today.... All in all, this is an interesting and useful book for both researcher and manager alike. First, and perhaps most importantly, the book incorporates multiple perspectives on learning - the psychological, sociological and the philosophical... Second, the book is neither purely theory driven, nor purely empirically driven. Theoretical contributions are complemented by empirical studies which help to illustrate the application of the theoretical contructs. I suspect that this would be of immense value to the practicing manager. Finally, the book provides a critical commentary on the state of the field in a nice compact way which should enhance its value to scholars in this area... a book which is both useful and interesting' - Organisational Studies

'[M]ost importantly, the book incorporates multiple perspectives on learning - the psychological, sociological and the philosohical... provides a critical commentary on the state of the field in a nice, compact way which should enhance its value to scholars' - Organization Studies

'A valuable resource for academics and practitioners in management and corporate strategy, as well as those involved in mangement training and development' - European Foundation for Management Development

'This is a particularly interesting and useful work because it combines some chapters which deal primarily in concepts or indeed theories, and others which describe the experiences of trying to carry out the practices involved increating both/either organisational learning and/or the learning organisation' -Industrial and Commercial Training

'The editors' overall assessment is that there has been insufficient dialogue between the two camps of action research and theorizing.... As a contribution to mapping this divided house, the text is an apt illustration of these problems. The editor's overview is of interest...' - Stephen Gibb, University of Strathclyde, MCB University Press

The debates surrounding concepts of 'organizational learning' and the 'learning organization' receive a welcome synthezis in this book. International experts explore the links between the two fields of enquiry, which hitherto, despite their intersecting concerns, have represented separate constituencies, literatures and perspectives.

The book provides a much-needed integrated framework of concepts and theories which draws on current insights from management cognition, theories of knowledge and learning, management practice and work psychology.

Table of Contents:

	Contributors
1	Organizational Learning: Current Debates and Opportunities	1
Pt. 1	Review and Critiques	23
2	Organizational Learning - Desperately Seeking Theory?	23
3	Organizational Learning as the Development of Stories	44
4	Balancing Biases: a Critical Review of the Literature on Organizational Learning	59
5	In Search of a Social Learning Theory	75
Pt. 2	Evaluations of Practice	92
6	The Role of Evaluative Enquiry in Creating Learning Organizations	92
7	Learning Across Organizational Boundaries	115
8	The Concept of the 'Learning Organization' Applied to the Transformation of the Public Sector	130
9	Learning, Trust and Organizational Change	157
10	Project Design for Learning and Innovation	176
11	Organizational Learning and Organizational Forgetting	194
12	Developing Learning Managers within Learning Organizations	217
	Index	243

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Company Officer Promotional Case Studies

Author: David S Becker

Company Officer Promotional Case Studies is written for anyone who wants to be a company officer someday.  It is designed to help a firefighter during a promotional process, and help them to begin to think like a company officer about how they would handle the situations presented to them in their daily duties.

 

The book is also designed to help fire departments that need different case studies for their assessment centers.  They are written to allow any department to take and use them in situations they feel are important to evaluate a candidate’s knowledge and skills in dealing with issues, events or incidents.