May the force of lifelong learning be with you – sustainable organizational learning in HEIs meeting competence needs in industry

Kristina M. Eriksson, Liselott Lycke
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Purpose Technological advancements and global societal changes reshapes manufacturing industry emphasizing needs for competence development of industrial professionals. The purpose of this paper is to study how organizational learning supports the development of academic structures, creating agile and sustainable formal educational models meeting novel competence needs. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative case study, part of a longitudinal research study, focuses on internal academic processes supporting a new formal educational model. Qualitative data was collected through five focus groups, incorporating 32 informants from different HEI function categories. Findings Changing traditional academic structures requires joint engagement between all HEI functions, emphasizing organizational learning with subprocesses of searching, creating, sustaining and exchanging knowledge in a learning loop. Results show a consensus among the different HEI functions regarding the value of the HEI’s coproduction with society; however, bureaucracy and academic structure hinder flexibility. Cross-functional teams building a “chain-of-trust” throughout the HEI coupled with full management support show opportunities to progress into a learning organization. Practical implications Organizational learning within HEIs requires trustful and open communication, multifunction knowledge exchange, holistic views of processes and system thinking, achieved through cross-functional teams and continuous improvement through learning loops. Social implications Industry-academic collaboration on formal education for lifelong learning needs to become both agile and resilience to meet technological advancement and sustainability. Originality/value Novel technology, digitalization and sustainability gain ground and require that society and organizations, including academia, change and learn. This means that academia is meeting new challenges and needs to develop internal processes.
愿终身学习的力量与你同在--高等院校的可持续组织学习满足行业的能力需求
目的技术进步和全球社会变革重塑了制造业,强调了对工业专业人员能力发展的需求。本文的目的是研究组织学习如何支持学术结构的发展,创建灵活、可持续的正规教育模式,满足新的能力需求。设计/方法/途径定性案例研究是纵向研究的一部分,重点关注支持新正规教育模式的内部学术流程。研究结果改变传统的学术结构需要高等院校所有职能部门的共同参与,强调组织学习与在学习循环中搜索、创造、保持和交流知识的子过程。结果表明,高等院校的不同职能部门就高等院校与社会共同生产的价值达成了共识;然而,官僚主义和学术结构阻碍了灵活性。跨职能团队在整个高等院校建立起 "信任链",再加上管理层的全力支持,就有机会发展成为一个学习型组织。实践意义高等院校的组织学习需要信任和开放的沟通、多职能知识交流、对流程的整体看法和系统思维,通过跨职能团队和学习循环的持续改进来实现。社会影响产学合作开展正规教育,促进终身学习,需要变得既灵活又有弹性,以满足技术进步和可持续发展的需要。原创性/价值新技术、数字化和可持续发展日益普及,要求包括学术界在内的社会和组织进行变革和学习。这意味着学术界正在迎接新的挑战,需要制定内部流程。
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