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High‐performance human resource strategies in learning schools

Cheng Yong, Tan - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 1, pp. 32-39

This article follows the overhaul in the teaching profession in Singapore which grants schools with more autonomy to decide their own manpower policies. It argues the need for more systemic, high‐commitment, mutually‐reinforcing human resource policies to reinforce the learning trajectory in...

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Debunking the “lean and mean” myth and celebrating the rise of learning organizations

Whitaker Shimko, Barbara; Meli, John T.; Restrepo, Juan C. - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 2, pp. 99-109

This study hypothesizes that while downsizing has been a reasonable strategic move for some firms, it is by no means a corporate panacea. The study further suggests that adding‐value to organizations by increasing the knowledge of employees at all levels, including the top level, is a...

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Networks and inter‐organizational learning: a critical review

Beeby, Mick; Booth, Charles - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 2, pp. 75-88

The paper is concerned with alliances and learning. It provides an overview of recent contributions to the emergent literatures on knowledge management and organizational learning, identifies similarities and differences between the two, and highlights the implications of these for academics and...

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Navigating change into the new millennium: themes and issues for the learning organization

Grieves, Jim - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 2, pp. 54-74

Suggests that the end of the twentieth century may witness the end of modernity and that the post‐modern world of organizations will be driven by a new set of expectations. On the one hand certain trends are discernible as a result of globalization and on the other internal debates within...

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Information dynamics, learning and knowledge creation in organizations

Bhatt, Ganesh D. - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 2, pp. 89-99

Managers in a wide array of organizations are concentrating on knowledge creation as a way to achieve competitiveness. Organizational knowledge, they hope, enables them to bring innovative products/services continuously in the marketplace. However, many are finding it difficult to understand how...

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The cyclical effect of expatriate satisfaction on organizational performance: the role of firm international orientation

Downes, Meredith; Thomas, Anisya S.; McLarney, Carolan - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 3, pp. 122-134

This study explores the role of expatriate satisfaction in organizational performance. It also posits that international transfer of knowledge and corporate learning are determinants in the overall satisfaction of expatriate managers. Moreover, as organizations gain international experience,...

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Installing mechanisms and instilling values: the role of leaders in organizational learning

Popper, Micha; Lipshitz, Raanan - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 3, pp. 135-145

The approach to organizational learning in this article is anchored in structural and cultural facets. The structural facet focuses on organizational learning mechanisms, which are institutionalized structural and procedural arrangements allowing organizations to systematically collect, analyze,...

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Dutch primary schools and the concept of the learning organization

Karsten, Sjoerd; Voncken, Eva; Voorthuis, Marjon - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 3, pp. 145-156

Since the 1990s the concept of the learning organization has been promoted as a way to restructure educational … goals. First, it explores how the more visionary and theoretical framework of the learning organization can be translated … explores how the idea of the learning organization is put into practice in the field of education and how we can learn from …

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Managerial perceptions of barriers to becoming a “learning organization”

Hodgkinson, Myra - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 3, pp. 156-167

This paper is concerned with identifying, from an organizational perspective, the concept of a “learning organization … also postgraduate management students. These managers provide interpretations of a “learning organization” within the … education can have significant impact on introducing, through postgraduate study, concepts such as the “learning organization …

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The learning organisation ideal in Civil Service organisations: deriving a measure

Smith, Kenneth D.; Taylor, William G.K. - In: The Learning Organization 7 (2000) 4, pp. 194-206

As part of the Government’s drive for responsive, high quality public services, the 1999 White Paper on Modernising Government suggested that the public service must become a learning organisation. Yet the application of the learning organisation ideal in public sector organisations is viewed...

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