Learning Practices: Assessment and Action for Organizational Improvement

by Anthony J. DiBella

This book offers a practical, hands-on, pluralistic approach to building organizational and team learning capability that is consistent with OD principles and that carefully explores the links between learning, corporate strategy, and knowledge management. Through a systematic series of applied exercises, it shows readers how learning in, of, and among organizations can be recognized, analyzed, and put into practice through a variety of learning actions and styles that improve organizational performance. It introduces the diagnostic Organizational Learning Inventory and provides guidance on how to use/benefit from it in assessing ANY organizational unit--e.g., department, workgroup, task force, or a company subsidiary. The Competitive Learning for Strategic Advantage. Assessing Learning in Your Team or Learning Orientations. Assessing the Conditions for Facilitating Factors. Recognizing Your Best Possible Learning Profile. Ways to Enhance or Shift Learning Orientations. Promoting the Conditions for Learning. Learning across Team and Corporate Boundaries. Making Learning Learning Portfolios and Architectures. Critical Challenges in Learning ?Best Practices.? The Learning Horizon. Chief Learning Officers, Chief Knowledge Officers, Directors of Organizational Development, Effectiveness, Training.

155 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2000