Learning : An Organisation Product or By-Product?

[andreww@petronas.com.my]

Currently I am preparing an artilce with the title
"LEARNING : An Organisation Product or By-Product"
as per announcement in my homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5621/

Appreciate greatly Ideas, Suggestion, Differenct perspectives from
all the wise men/women in the above forum.

In my OBSERVATIONS in the Corporate world (what about academia,
or this forum), many "progressive" managements have jumped
onto the "Learning Organisation" bandwagon. But there are plenty of evidence
that "Learning" is just an "after-thought" or "by-product" of their day-to-day
activities, meetings, interraction, debate, problem solving etc.... never the
FOCUS or in their Consciouness. They are still using the old paradigm, the
Machine Model, the "Divide and Manage" doctrine (Taylorism?),.....
to justify the "LEARNING" process.


The intent of the article is to Explore and Expose the present
paradigm and open a path towards a new one.

Your further contribution to the ideas is much appreciated.

Regards

Andrew Wong

Office eMail : andreww@petronas.com.my
Home eMail : michwy@pl.jaring.my
HomePage : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5621/

[sherry@world.std.com (C. Sherry]

> Currently I am preparing an artilce with the title
> "LEARNING : An Organisation Product or By-Product"
> as per announcement in my homepage:
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5621/

Andrew:

I dont know how far youve gotten with your paper, but I think you pose a
good question. It would probably make a good SD article to discuss how new
ideas take hold (e.g. Kuhns The Structure of Scientific Revolution) or
other change models, and where the adoption of something like learning
organizations breaks down. There certainly are many predecessors, such as
total quality, and many good discussions about how and where they failed.

One hypothesis I have based on the work of a client groups is that
challenges to power and reward structures are inevitable if either TQ or LO
are truly adopted, and that the vast majority of organizations are not
willing to change that much. They are happy to use systems thinking or
whatever tools provide short term benefits, but no more.

Please e-mail me when your paper is available.


Sherry

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