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Action Learning and the Learning Organization: Building Learning Capacity in Individuals, Groups and Organizations

In: Action Learning and its Applications

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  • Judy O’Neil
  • Karen E. Watkins
  • Victoria J. Marsick

Abstract

Moving to healthy, open organizations has been a fundamental aim of organization development (OD) since Kurt Lewin’s (1951) early work contrasting authoritarian and democratic groups. Later, Rensis Likert’s System 4 framework (1967) offered a set of dimensions or organizational capacities that enable the organization to learn from its environment, people and markets. Recent focus on creating learning organizations led to the evolution of a number of interventions that help organizations embed these critical capacities. Perhaps no other intervention has the potential of action learning to build capacities at the individual, group and organizational levels.

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  • Judy O’Neil & Karen E. Watkins & Victoria J. Marsick, 2010. "Action Learning and the Learning Organization: Building Learning Capacity in Individuals, Groups and Organizations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Robert L. Dilworth & Yury Boshyk (ed.), Action Learning and its Applications, chapter 10, pages 154-165, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-25074-1_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230250741_10
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