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Cultivating a Culture of Learning: The Role of Leadership in Fostering Lifelong Development
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Muhammad Junaid Ahsan – Learning Organization, 2025
Purpose: Leadership is key to building a culture of continuous learning within organizations. This study aims to explore the pivotal role of leadership in creating a culture of constant learning within organizations by bibliometric and content analysis. It also introduces propositions and frameworks that emphasize the importance of fostering a…
Descriptors: Leadership Role, Lifelong Learning, Organizational Learning, Organizational Culture
Organizational Transformation in Crisis: Learning from Emergent Patterns of Knowing and Organizing
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Andres, Virginia; Heo, Dongcheol – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: Complex crises affect tightly coupled systems making them highly unpredictable. This paper aims to determine how organizations learn from their crisis experience shaping their knowledge and transformation trajectory toward and beyond survival. A theoretical framework integrating organizational learning (OL) and knowledge management in…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Crisis Management, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management
Learning Organization -- Organization Emerging from Presence
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Rupcic, Nataša – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the possibilities of transcending individual, organizational and social problems through the prism of presence as suggested by Senge et al. (2012). Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on the critical review of previous contributions. Findings: The idea of a learning organization seems…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Social Problems, Problem Solving, Attitude Change
Learning to Organize and Organizing to Learn: The Case of Dutch Military Expeditionary Task Forces
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Kramer, Eric-Hans; Moorkamp, Matthijs; Visser, Max – Learning Organization, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide insight in how military expeditionary task forces cope with the dual challenge of organizing and learning, by reflecting on the experiences of Dutch expeditionary task forces in post-conflict missions in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reflects on the outcomes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Learning, Armed Forces, Military Personnel
Nancy Dixon: Empowering the Learning Organization through Psychological Safety
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Sidani, Yusuf; Reese, Simon – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overview of the development of learning organization concepts from the perspective of Nancy Dixon, who has been at the forefront of the learning organization discussion since the 1980s. Design/methodology/approach: Through a conversation with Dixon, and a scan of some of her works, this paper discusses…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Power Structure, Psychological Patterns, Safety
Improvisation in the Learning Organization: A Defense of the Infra-Ordinary
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Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Clegg, Stewart – Learning Organization, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to describe the hidden presence of improvisation in organizations. The authors explore this presence through George Perec's notion of the infra-ordinary applied to the study of the learning organization and its paradoxes. Design/methodology/approach: Most studies of paradox and improvisation are qualitative and inductive.…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Organizations (Groups), Logical Thinking, Philosophy
Learning-Structure Fit Part II: Empirical Examination of the Relationship between Employee Learning and Formalization, Specialization and Standardization of Work
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Sitar, Aleša Saša; Pahor, Marko; Škerlavaj, Miha – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: This study, which consists of two parts, investigates the influence of structure on the learning of individuals in organizational settings. This second paper (Part II) builds on the conceptual paper (Part I) and explores the relationships between three structural dimensions of individual work -- formalization, specialization and…
Descriptors: Employees, Workplace Learning, Correlation, Specialization