Pluralism in Organizations: Learning from Unconventional Forms of Organizations

Learning Organizations

A small number of researchers have long been interested in organizational learning. Scholars sought to understand how organizations learn behaviorally over time from experience (March and Olsen 1975) and showed how cultures are created and maintained that prevent learning (Argyris and Schön 1978, 1996). They described organizations as having a collective memory, and looked at ways in which info...

Learning Organizations

The purposes of this paper are to develop a comprehensive understanding of how ‘learning organizations’ can be created and to provide a partial evaluation of the literature with a view to developing propositions for the future research agenda. To these ends, the paper analyzes the components of ‘learning organizations,’ deals with the barriers to organizational learning and several strategies f...

Adaptive Organizations and Emergent Forms

Learning in Organizations

In work life, socially based learning occurs all the time. We learn from interactions between peers, genders, functional groups, and across hierarchies, and it happens in ways not normally recognized as learning (Jordan, 1993). Therefore, use of the term “social” learning reflects that organizations, organizational units, and work groups are social clusters, as are study groups and task groups,...

Identifying the Barriers of Developing Organizational Learning in Administrative Organizations

Management scientists state that for the purpose of surviving and developing, it is necessary to be engaged in learning forever. Learning can help' organizations with any changes, innovations, and creations. According to studies, the learning capacity in nationwide administrative organizations is rather low. In this article, first the concept and also the necessary characteristics for learning ...