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Robert M. Swanson , and Kenton E. Ross Manufacturer: Thomson South-Western ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 0538712007 |
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Organizational Learning II: Theory, Method, and Practice
Chris Argyris , and David A. Schon Manufacturer: FT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0201629836 |
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A member of the PH OD Series! Organizational Learning II expands and updates the ideas and concepts of the authors' ground- breaking first book. With new examples and the most up-to-date information on the technical aspects of organizational and management theory, Argyris and Schon demonstrate how the research and practice of organizational learning can be incorporated in today's business environment. Features chapters focused around the Introduction to Organizational Learning; Defensive Reasoning And The Theoretical Framework That Explains It; Inquiry-Enhancing Intervention and Its Theoretical Basis; and Strengths and Weaknesses Of Consultation and Research In The Field Of Organizational Learning.Customer Reviews:
error in listing in Amazon.......2007-08-15
Deep theories on learning in organizations.......2004-08-06
Normative and practive-oriented organizational learning.......2003-01-27
In this book, the approach to organizational learning is normative and practice-oriented. The authors are mainly interested in productive organizational learning: how this kind of learning can be generated in real-world organizations and how practitioners can help to foster it.
The theory given in this book is primarily based on two types of learning: single-loop and double-loop. The authors have borrowed the distinction between single and double-loop learning from W. Ross Ashby's "Design for a Brain" (1960).
On case studies of known companies, such as Intel, General Motors, etc., the authors show "primary inhibitory loops" that inhibit organizational learning, and "conditions for error", and how to avoid them. The following list gives the most common "conditions for error" and how to avoid them:
- Vagueness : Specify
- Ambiguity : Clarify
- Untestability : Make testable
- Scattered information : Concert
- Information withheld : Reveal
- Undiscussability : Make discussable
- Uncertainity : Inquire
- Inconsistency/incompatibility: Resolve
In part I, the authors introduce the conceptual framework, both for organizational learning and for the relationship between research and practice. In part II, they introduce and illustrate concepts central to limited learning. Part III presents a brief classroom-based example. Part IV is the review of the recent history of the field of organizational learning.
Despite of the brilliant content, the book which is marked as "Reprinted with corrections August, 1996", which I have (paperback), is awfully printed. It is really the eye-killer. And nevertheless, it has some typos. Please try to find a version which is not "Reprinted with corrections August, 1996".
Definitive: how people politics stop organisational learning.......1997-02-08
Chris Macrae, editor of Brand Chartering Handbook and MELNET www.brad.ac.uk/branding/ E-mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
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Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: Developments in Theory and Practice
Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0761959165 |
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`The introduction chaper by Mark Easterby-Smith and Luis Araujo introduces the reader to the unresolved issues with which the field is still grappling today.... All in all, this is an interesting and useful book for both researcher and manager alike. First, and perhaps most importantly, the book incorporates multiple perspectives on learning - the psychological, sociological and the philosophical... Second, the book is neither purely theory driven, nor purely empirically driven. Theoretical contributions are complemented by empirical studies which help to illustrate the application of the theoretical contructs. I suspect that this would be of immense value to the practicing manager. Finally, the book provides a critical commentary on the state of the field in a nice compact way which should enhance its value to scholars in this area... a book which is both useful and interesting' - Organisational Studies`[M]ost importantly, the book incorporates multiple perspectives on learning - the psychological, sociological and the philosohical... provides a critical commentary on the state of the field in a nice, compact way which should enhance its value to scholars' - Organization Studies
`A valuable resource for academics and practitioners in management and corporate strategy, as well as those involved in mangement training and development' - European Foundation for Management Development
`This is a particularly interesting and useful work because it combines some chapters which deal primarily in concepts or indeed theories, and others which describe the experiences of trying to carry out the practices involved in creating both/either organisational learning and/or the learning organisation' - Industrial and Commercial Training
'The editors' overall assessment is that there has been insufficient dialogue between the two camps of action research and theorizing.... As a contribution to mapping this divided house, the text is an apt illustration of these problems. The editor's overview is of interest...' - Stephen Gibb, University of Strathclyde, MCB University Press
The debates surrounding concepts of `organizational learning' and the `learning organization' receive a welcome synthezis in this book. International experts explore the links between the two fields of enquiry, which hitherto, despite their intersecting concerns, have represented separate constituencies, literatures and perspectives.
The book provides a much-needed integrated framework of concepts and theories which draws on current insights from management cognition, theories of knowledge and learning, management practice and work psychology.
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Organizational Learning From World Class Theories to Global Best Practices
David Schwandt , and Michael J. Marquardt Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Companies around the world are beginning to recognize that only by increasing the speed and quality of their learning can they succeed in the rapidly changing global marketplace. Developing organization-wide learning and becoming a learning organization has become critical for adaptation and survival. Organizational Learning: From World Class Theories to Global Best Practices starts with a review of significant learning theory and research accomplished over the past 20 years. This research is integrated into an action-centered theory of organizational learning. The book then explores in depth the Organizational Learning System Model developed by David Schwandt that has been applied in a variety of public and private organizations. Recognizing that companies now work with multicultural groups in a global marketplace, the authors also examine cultural implications of the Model. The authors present best-practice application of the Organizational Learning System Model by companies from around the world, including Arthur Anderson, Price Waterhouse, Beloit Corporation, Motorola, and Meralco. These are companies that have taken the leadership in developing learning systems on a organization-wide basis. Organizational Learning: From World Class Theories to Global Best Practices provides practical steps and strategies for developing and applying organizational learning in the workplace. Features
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The best book on organizational learning.......1999-10-28
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Making It Happen: Stories from Inside the New Workplace
Manufacturer: Pegasus Communications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1883823323 |
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Every workday, individuals and organizations accumulate hard-earned experience as they introduce organizational learning in a multitude of settings. Making It Happen is a collection of vital accounts by these pioneers--real people who are wrestling with the unvarnished circumstances of real organizations. Get the view from the inside as Shell Oil, Ford, Chrysler, and Philips Display Components work to launch large-scale change. Learn from an over-the-shoulder look at how Arthur Andersen, the U.S. Navy, and Kellogg, Brown & Root meet a range of business challenges by using organizational learning tools. See how EDS, along with educational and non-profit organizations, transform their workplace cultures through a focus on developing people. Though the situations and approaches are myriad, the contributors share a passion to help their organizations become more effective and humane workplaces. Making It Happen reveals the extraordinary depth and power of organizational learning tools and methods through inspiring eyewitness accounts of transformation efforts.Customer Reviews:
Case studies illustrating Senge's 'five disciplines'.......1999-12-08
There are 16 relatively short (av 7-8 pages) articles, arranged in three parts:
Launching large-scale change
Addressing critical business challenges
Transforming people and culture
They are written by people directly involved in the process of change, ranging from the former head of Shell USA to change project managers. The stories are chosen to illustrate the use of a variety of the tools of systems thinking, mental models and team learning. All are taken from real experience of organisations that have devoted considerable thought and effort to achieving successful change.
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Perfect Plc?: The Purpose and Practice of Organizational Learning (Mcgraw-Hill Developing Organizations Series)
Mike Pedler , and Kath Aspinwall Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0077091302 |
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Modeling Methodology for Physiology and Medicine (Academic Press Biomedical Engineering Series) (Biomedical Engineering)
Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0121602451 |
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Modelling Methodology for Physiology and Medicine offers a unique approach and an unprecedented range of coverage of the state-of-the-art, advanced modelling methodology that is widely applicable to physiology and medicine. The book opens with a clear and integrated treatment of advanced methodology for developing mathematical models of physiology and medical systems. Readers are then shown how to apply this methodology beneficially to real-world problems in physiology and medicine, such as circulation and respiration.
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Eclipsing Binary Stars: Modeling and Analysis (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
Josef Kallrath , and Eugene F. Milone Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387986227 |
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This book focuses on the formulation of mathematical models for the light curves of eclipsing binary stars, and on the algorithms for generating such models. Since information gained from binary systems provides much of what we know of the masses, luminosities, and radii of stars, such models are acquiring increasing importance in studies of stellar structure and evolution. As in other areas of science, the computer revolution has given many astronomers tools that previously only specialists could use; anyone with access to a set of data can now expect to be able to model it. This book will provide astronomers, both amateur and professional, with a guide for - specifying an astrophysical model for a set of observations - selecting an algorithm to determine the parameters of the model - estimating the errors of the parameters It is written for readers with knowledge of basic calculus and linear algebra; appendices cover mathematical details on such matters as optimization, coordinate systems, and specific models. While emphasizing the physical and mathematical framework, the discussion remains close to the problems if actual implementation. It begins with an overview of the problem and a discussion of the observational data that form the basis of any model. The treatment then turns to the direct problem (computing the light curve and other observables from the a given set of parameters) and then to the indirect problem (determining a best-fit set of parameters from the data). The book concludes with chapters on specific models and approaches and the authors' views on the structure of future light- curve programs.
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Alpha Olefins Applications Handbook (Chemical Industries)
Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0824778952 |
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Alpha Olefins Applications Handbook (Chemical Industries)
George R. Lappin Manufacturer: NY ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MUGOMG |
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Molecular Methods for Microbial Identification and Typing
K.J. Towner , and A. Cockayne Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 041249390X |
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The accurate identification and typing of microbes is essential for workers active in all fields of microbiology. Many examples of modern molecular methods have been concealed in scientific and medical literature but this introductory text considers the possible applications of such methods and compares their advantages and disadvantages.
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Improving Construction Cooperation: New Theoretical Insight into How and Why (Current Directions in Real Estate and Construction)
Florence Phua Manufacturer: Research Studies Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0863802834 |
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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
Jodi Picoult Manufacturer: Washington Square Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743454537 |
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.Customer Reviews:
Moving in many ways.......2007-10-02
Loved It.......2007-10-02
Wow!...again, WOW!.......2007-09-28
A work of art........2007-09-20
My Sister's Keeper.......2007-09-18
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Second Glance: A Novel
Jodi Picoult Manufacturer: Washington Square Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0743454510 |
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Ghosts and ghost hunters collide in this compelling tale of the paranormal set in Vermont's green mountains. When the patriarch of the Abenaki Indian tribe that was nearly eradicated by that state's eugenics project in the 1930s encounters Ross Wakeman, the miraculous survivor of several attempted suicides who wants nothing more than to be reunited with the woman he loved and lost, they set in motion a chain of events that will unravel an ancient murder and lead to a second chance at life and love for the victim's descendants. Picoult, author of Salem Falls, brings the past alive and peoples it with a cast of extraordinarily well-realized characters whose reach into the future touches the lives of a dying boy, a frightened girl, and their mothers--two women who've given up on love until the revenants stirred up by a plan to develop an ancient burial ground show them what they're missing. Second Glance is an intricate and suspenseful ghost story that enchants and illuminates all the way to its powerful conclusion. --Jane AdamsBook Description
Do we love across time? Or in spite of it?A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have the inhabitants of tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who's never seen a ghost -- all he's searching for is something to end the pain of losing his fiancée, Aimee, in a car accident. He tried suicide -- any number of times. Now Ross lives only for a way to connect with Aimee from beyond. Searching the site for signs of the paranormal, Ross meets the mysterious Lia, who sparks him to life for the first time in years. But the discoveries that await Ross are beyond anything he could dream of in this world -- or the next.
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"Sometimes I wonder...Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?" An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property. Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancée's death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult's enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion. Hailed by critics as a "master" storyteller (Washington Post), Picoult once again ""pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkable" (Denver Post). Second Glance, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history - Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s - to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us - iterally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?Customer Reviews:
Kind of slow reading.......2007-09-28
Love this book!.......2007-09-23
Best ghost story/murder mystery I've ever read!.......2007-09-14
it was OK...........2007-05-22
Really worth the read.......2007-05-18
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Second Glance : A Novel
Jodi Picoult Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WL7L7C |
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