Describes current research on organizational learning and change being conducted in the Midlands region in the UK … learning within this region has been the arrival of Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK Ltd and the perceived revitalization of the … to which Toyota Ltd can be attributed as being a point source of change for firms learning, emulating and adopting what …

Illustrates the results accomplished by an ad hoc committee established at a bank to conduct training throughout the … efficient than the addition of a training department or the use of external trainers. The primary criteria used for selection of … considered informal leaders by their peers. The ad hoc committee was initially trained via utilization of external training …

organizational learning theory and frameworks with local, corporate knowledge. In the corporate transformation studied this local … with transformation efforts they provided scale and continuity to organizational learning efforts. The improved performance … and success resulting from this corporate transformation provides lessons for all learning and improvement initiatives …

managing a supportive environment conducive for learning as well as sustaining organizational change; and second, to describe … case‐study data‐gathering method to enable a pragmatic grounding of the change processes and organizational learning … conducive for learning as well as organizational change. Research limitations/implications – The theory of practice set forth …

Health care policy and practice are frequently driven by government mandate. What role does organizational learning … have in government‐directed organizational change and what kind of organizational learning might we expect from legislated … implementation of the state′s resulting maternal and infant health policy from an organizational learning perspective.  …

at promoting and developing a series of new and innovative learning and training opportunities in support of a more … years, has been entrusted by the United Nations to the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin. The college aims … paper is a commentary on the progress made in conceiving, creating, developing and applying a learning and change process in …

Seeks to find predictors of learning organizations as determined by Marquardt’s Learning Organization Profile (1996 … asked to rate their organizational perceptions on rewards and recognition, training and education, information flow, vision … structure to the learning organization and that an environment of knowledge sharing and learning systems is an indication of a …

This study defines, examines, and measures the effectiveness of a corporate virtual learning program. Initially …, distinctions between traditional and virtual learning and university and corporate programs are defined. Then, based on the … literature, an integrative model of the perceived effectiveness of a virtual learning environment is developed and examined. The …

Purpose – This study aims to explore a relationship between the learning organization and transfer of training as … between the learning organization and transfer of training such as: emphasis on both as strategies for a competitive advantage … organizations are more likely to practice transfer of training. Findings – The importance placed on the learning organization and …

information and honed skills in analysis is essential but inadequate in managerial learning. More importantly, managerial learning … means learning to take effective action; learning to acquire the “soft skills”, such as leadership, decision making …, teamworking, negotiations, and communications. Action learning is one approach to management growth and development, which induces …