{"title":"The Topicality of the Learning Organization: is the Concept Still Relevant Today?","authors":"S. Hoe","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.2","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the current level of interest in the learning organization and usefulness of the concept at the present time. It reviews authors who have recently and explicitly commented on the topicality of the learning organization, offers a qualitative content analysis of recent journal publications on learning organizations justifying the need for the concept, and uses quantitative research using print media indicators and Google Trends to identify the number of publications related to the learning organization over time. The results suggest that while the level of interest in the learning organization among scientific researchers has grown, the level of interest among casual researchers has declined. There is also relatively more interest in the concept outside of the United States and among healthcare and education organizations. The justifications for the usefulness of the concept today are mainly based on its role in improving organizational culture, performance, and innovation capacity.","PeriodicalId":368305,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127190961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Background and Introduction","authors":"Anders Örtenblad","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.1","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter introduces the book and its chapters. First, a brief background is given. In this part of the chapter the aims of the book are also offered. The main aim is to examine and develop the idea of the learning organization, through making an inventory on what already is known about the learning organization, offering new, alternative features and angles on the learning organization, and suggesting areas for further research. The book also intends to fill the gap between the more traditional perspectives and the more critical perspectives of the learning organization—or at least to bring them closer to each other. After the relatively brief background, the eight sections in the book are presented, along with the chapters that each section contains.","PeriodicalId":368305,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124045619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interventions to Create a Learning Organization","authors":"V. Marsick, Karen E. Watkins, A. Smith","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832355.013.34","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines ways that Watkins and Marsick (1993, 1997), together or with other collaborators (including students), have engaged in, or supported, interventions to create a learning organization. The chapter starts by framing the intervention approach associated with their model. The authors then examine examples of research that illustrate how action science and action learning develop learning capacity toward a learning organization in ways consistent with the model. They turn to a comprehensive framework that Gephart and Marsick (2016) developed focused on system dynamics, and illustrate the way this framework has been used to foster organizational learning. The authors’ final examples come from DLOQ-inspired research carried out by students. They conclude with reflections that suggest a way of creating a learning organization that is less an idealized outcome and more a learning process for iterative—and adjustable—growth toward desired goals.","PeriodicalId":368305,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114901957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}