MITE6328 (5)

6. Assignment Task

References

What PD happens in your workplace?

1. Review

What strategies does your organisation have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?

• DuBrin, A. J. (2007) Fundamentals of organizational behavior. Ohio: Thomson/South-Western.
• Finger, M. & Brand, S. B., (1999), “Concept of the 'Learning Organization‘ Applied to Transformation of the Public Sector: Conceptual Contributions for Theory Development.” Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: Developments in theory and practice. Edited by Mark Easterby-Smith, John Burgoyne and Luis Araujo.
• Flood, R.L. (2009). Rethinking the Fifth Discipline: Learning within the unknowable. London: Routledge.
• Garvin, D. A., Edmondson, A.C., & Gino, F. (2008). “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”. Harvard Business Review, 86 (3), 109-166.
• Law, N., Yuen, H.K., & Fox, R. (2011). Educational Innovations Beyond Technology: nurturing leadership and establishing learning organizations, Springer. Retrieved http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71148-5
• McGill, M.E. &, Slocum, J.W., (1993), “Unlearning the Organization”. Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 22, No. 2.
• Senge, P. (2003). The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency.
• Sun, P.Y.T. &, Scott, J.L., (2003), “Exploring the divide – organizational learning and the learning organization.” The Learning Organization. Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 202-215.
• Watson, B. (2002). Rethinking Organisational Learning. Melbourne: Doctorate, Faculty of Education, Education, The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 17 February, 2012 from http://dtl.unimelb.edu.au/R/9KJL45NY1KQ7Y4X49A5AM1IJJ2GY76NITXAMJBT1JB81P4SQE6-02341?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118649&pds_handle=GUEST

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6. Group Work Session 5 Activity

1. Review

Assignment 1 & 2 Review

• Use the Harvard Review Survey results of your institution to help analyse the extent of LO in your workplace
• Review group workplace cases: compare similarities and differences and develop a table evidencing this.
• What can be learnt from this comparison to help complete Assignment Task 1

8 HK Case Studies

Models of Change

Class Schedule Changes

Organisational Learning

MITE 6328 (5)

1. Review

Individual Presentations of

Group Work

Organisational Learning & Learning

Organisations

5 Minute Individual

Presentations of Group work to-date

Reviewer identify:

1. what was good

2. something to improve

1. Review

Lusthaus, Anderson, Carden, & Montalván 2002 ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT

2. Review of

Group Work - Progress

ePortfolio:

1. Activities

2. Design and navigation

3. Links to resources

4. Individual student activities

5. Group collaboration

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5. Reflection & Case Study

1. Review

• How best to initiate such a learning environment in conjunction with the organisation’s strategic objectives?

Faculty of Education Case Study:

The formation of an e-learning approach through the support of learning technology could be considered as being one such appropriate method towards facilitating the creation and management of knowledge in organisational settings

Proposal: funding and staffing for innovation and professional development

1. Review

3. OL and LO

2. Is yours a Learning Organisation?

4. Managing Changes

3. OL and LO

Harvard Business Review (2008)

"Is Yours a Learning Organization?"

Learning Organisations

Organisational learning

The ability of an organisation to gain insight and understanding from experience. It involves experimentation, observation, analysis, and a willingness to examine both successes and failures (McGill et al., 1993)

As a process & activity through which organizations eventually aspire to become learning organisations (Finger & Brand, 1999; DuBrin, 2007)

Organisational Learning

What forces and influences affect practices in your workplace?

Are these taken into account in considering the managing change in your workplace?

Complete the survey and capture/record the results. Compare your results with other groups members and upload to your Group blog

• Change has become a pervasive concern for all organisations
• Organisational experts believe that an essential prerequisite to successful organisational change is organisational learning. So understanding how your organisation learns is important
• Improvement in sustainable organisational performance is based on a change in organisational behavior which is based on some form of organisational learning

Organisational learning:

• the learning process used in the organization
• concerned with the issue of how organisational members learn
• may result in a modification of behavior

Learning organisation reflects:

• how this learning moves the organisation towards its intended objectives and
• how learning is transmitted between individual, collective, organisational, inter-organizational entities
• may continue to evolve in terms of its behavior (Sun & Scott, 2003)

http://hbr.org/2008/03/is-yours-a-learning-organization/ar/1

Learning organisation

An organisation skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights (Garvin, 1993; Flood, 2009) and

‘the capability to create, integrate and apply knowledge’ (Thomas & Allen, 2006, p. 123)

https://hbs.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b7rYZGRxuMEyHRz

(Sun & Scott, 2003)

Broken link to Survey

https://surveys.hbs.edu/perseus/se.ashx?s=381B5FE533C282FF