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| Author: | James, C. R. |
| Title: | Designing Learning Organizations |
| Journal: | Organizational Dynamics
2003 : FEB, VOL. 32:1, p. 46-61 |
| Index terms: | LEARNING ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A learning organization, or L-form, is distinctly different from a traditional multidivisional, or M-form, organization, but little is known about its organizational design. In this article, one of the first structural approaches to learning organizations is presented. The approach includes six elements of organizational design: strong leadership, egalitarian cultures, integrating mechanisms, dispersed strategies, horizontal structures, and knowledge workers. These elements are connected through a learning organization web and a supporting framework. The 4 Bs framework underscores the assumptions of beliefs, balance, boundarylessness, and behavior that give a learning organization its transformational capacity. It argues that the L-form is needed to achieve the collective and learning properties. |
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