Learning Organization
Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhDThe learning organization focuses on enhancing its systems (including people) to continually increase the organization's capacity for performance.
Sections of This Topic Include:
Various PerspectivesVarious Other Peformance Improvement Programs and Movements
Various Perspectives
Review of Peter Senge's "Fifth Discipline" (a seminal book on systems theory and organizations)Analysis of an Organization's Learning Climate
A Different View of Organizational Learning
Knowledge Management Organizational Learning: @BRINT (tm)
Learning-Org Dialog on Learning Organizations
Leader as Learner
Learning-Org Dialog on Learning Organizations
Learning-Org Dialog on Learning Organizations
Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations: An Overview
Fifth Discipline
Learning, Change and Organisations
The Learning Organization
Learning-Org Dialog on Learning Organizations
Communities of commitment: the heart of learning organizations (extensive from MIT)
Extensive list of articles about organizational learning
Also see:
Systems ThinkingVarious Other Performance Programs and Movements
The following can be organizational improvement programs, depending on how they're used. (See Broad Overview of Various Programs and Movements (see Note #1 below.)Balanced Scorecard
Benchmarking
BusinessProcess Re-Engineering
Cultural Change
Continuous Improvement
ISO9000
Knowledge Management
Management by Objectives
Outcomes-Based Evaluation
Program Evaluation
Strategic Planning
Systems Thinking
Total Quality Management
For the Category of Organizational Development:
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books
Managing Organizational Change
Managing Organizational Change
Field
Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides complete, step-by-step guidelines to identify complex issues in for-profit or government organizations and successfully resolve each of them. This book is also helpful to organizations that are doing fine now, but want to evolve to the next level of performance. This is one of the truly comprehensive, yet practical, books about this complex subject! Includes online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library's topic about guiding change are adapted from this comprehensive book.
Field
Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development With Nonprofits
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides complete, step-by-step guidelines to identify complex issues in nonprofit organizations and successfully resolve each of them. This book is also helpful to organizations that are doing fine now, but want to evolve to the next level of performance. This is one of the truly comprehensive, yet practical, books about this complex subject! Includes online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library's topic about guiding change are adapted from this comprehensive book.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Growing Your Organization
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Also See
Capacity Building (Nonprofit) -- Recommended Books
