Transcript An introduction to Learning Organisations

An introduction to Learning
Organisations
Chris Blamires & Ceri Daniels
School of Education and Professional
Development
Balanced concern
Corporate
and moral
development
Stage 5
Stage 4
Stage 3
Ethical
Emerging
Ethical
Concern
for profits
and ethics
Responsive
Stage 2
Legalistic
Stage 1
Amoral
Unbalanced concern
Reidenbach and Robin (1987)
Bob Garratt
Policy Learning
External
effectiveness
Operational
Learning
Internal
efficiency
Strategic
Learning
integration
Garratt’s 6 pre conditions
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Accepting that organisations are complex,
adaptive human systems, not mindless
machines
Understanding that organisations are driven
more by process than structure
Understanding the difference between first
and second order change
6 pre conditions continued
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Accepting the need to integrate the
operational and policy/foresight learning
cycles into a forum of strategic organizational
debate
Accepting and using the inevitability of
events
Accepting the professionalisation of
direction-givers