... concepts were or were not impacting the employee job satisfaction improvement.H2. Acceptance of Senge's concepts and employee job satisfaction will improve more in a single Senge LO intervention organization than in a non‐intervention control organization. The organizational development...

..., Popper (1972 , pp. 108‐109) states that there are: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Epistemology Organizational development Learning organizations Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela invented the term “autopoiesis” (literally, “self‐production”) for their definition...

.... This might be regarded as a valid indicator for low connectivity at the telecom firm. The business environment of the telecom firm was characterized as turbulent. One middle manager defined the market situation as follows: Learning Organizational development Complexity theory...

... transfer Organizational development Accreditation of prior learning Project management Case studies Technology‐driven companies are increasingly dependent on collaborative relationships, such as technology transfer, to face an ever‐changing competitive landscape characterized by rapid...

... Leadership Responsibility Corporate culture Corporate communication Values Organizational development During the 1990s the concept of the learning organisation was much discussed and written about. Therefore in this article I am not going to redefine what I believe to be a learning organisation. I...

... Organizational development In the present post industrial society, knowledge is a key organizational resource (Bell, 1973; Machlup, 1980). Unlike physical resources such as land, labor, and capital, knowledge is not a structurally identifiable entity. Although it can be generated, codified, and processed...

... within Organizational Development will reshape intervention strategies through organizational learning and Human Resource Development. OD developed as a discipline in its own right, however, by adopting experiential approaches (although originally through the mixed success of T‐groups...

... and process ideas will be most efficient, most free from problems, most aesthetically pleasing, and most healthy for people and the natural environment. Creativity Learning organizations Organizational development A “learning organization” grows by sharing collective knowledge gained through...

... takes a holistic approach to scientific and socially constructed knowledge, assuming the need for both emancipatory and business benefits from KM. The model represents KM as a highly recursive process, rather than sequential. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Knowledge management Models Organizational...

.... Using this overall approach (resource cf. process), as a starting point, the literature goes on to identify a number of more specific roles that may be chosen for certain situations. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Consultants Learning Organizational development Since “learning...

...” of people getting together around a common purpose. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Learning organizations Organizational development Participative planning In this article, I aim to offer principles for action, rather than prescriptions for action. As Julia Childs says, “Good cooks don’t...

... maps. “Diawog”, therefore, was a way for the animals to understand their own mental maps better. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Benefits Organizational development Teamwork Albert the tortoise wandered around his territory. It was early in the morning and he was looking for his usual meal...

...‐examination among the management and staff in various areas of this office’s operations. Organizational development Organizational learning Quality As the century closes, forces such as customers’ demand for sophisticated products, pressures from competition, and increasingly high expectations...

... Ireland Learning organizations Management Organizational development Research In recent years, the notion of the learning organization has been raised to the status of an orthodoxy. Despite the burgeoning,prescriptive literature, the transition to this new organizational scenario is one...

... Organizational development A case‐based reasoning system (CBRS) essentially consists of a case‐library and a software system for retrieving and analysing the given “similar case” and its associated information. A pictorial representation of a simple CBRS is shown in Figure 2 . In a learning...

... and organizational development. 1 The vata element is associated with movement within the body: respiration, excretion, neural control. Physically, vatatypes tend to be small and thin, and mentally bright. They grasp a new idea quickly and learn quickly, but have a poor long‐term memory...