1、SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,Mike PedlerJohn BurgoyneTom Boydell,A Strategy for Sustainable Development,The Learning Company,1 The Idea of the Learning Company,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,Definition: A learning company is an organization that facilitates the learning of all its members and continuo
2、usly transform itself. Learning Organization Vs. Learning Company Organization: mechanical sort of word, somewhat abstract and lifeless Company:one of the oldest words for a group of people engaged in a joint enterprise, collective endeavor and not to identify to a particular legal form or ownership
3、 pattern,Who are our companions? Employees, owners, customers, suppliers, neighbors, the environment and even competitors Action in the Learning Company, two purposes: -To resolve the immediate problem -To learn from that process How do companies come to be the way they are? Three perspectives: - Id
4、eas: companies are a product of the visions and images that their founders sought to create, and succeeding generations try to recreate. - Life stage: companies need to be of a form and behavior appropriate to its age or stage. - Era: companies are shaped by, and fit in with, the economic and cultur
5、al context.,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,1 The Idea of the Learning Company,2 Why is the idea of the learning company relevant now?,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,The Evolution of Organization,Primal Phase: The Pioneer Organization -characterized by excellence and winningRational Phase: The Differenti
6、ated Organization -characterized by order, structure, systematic specialization, shake-up, improvement communication and/or self developmentDevelopmental Phase: The Integrated Organization -typically TQM (by Deming), characterized by unity, systematic meaning, purpose, ethics, cooperating, morality,
7、 ecology.,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,The Evolution of Training and Development,From systematic training to the Learning Company,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,3 Are You a Learning Company?,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,The fishbone,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,The Biography of Your Company,-Company B
8、iography Activity,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,Step 1: Small group of people that should be the whole company, could be the board of directors, could be a group representing all the main parts of the company.Step 2: Each member to consider where they think the company is now as figure 1 and to put a
9、 master chart on the wall and ask each to put a cross on the line that expresses the view.Step 3: Checking on your own interpretation of where the company is now and establishing some consensus on the question of where you are on the lifeline.Step 4: Focusing on the past and considering some of the
10、events and decisions that have made the company what it is today.Step 5: Using U curve method underlying the activities in the company biography activity, in the curve, the diagnosis of present state is dealt with Learning Company Profile.Step 6: Moving down to the future-focused right-hand side of
11、the U-curve, starting with abstract ideas and visions and ending with the first step.,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,SUCCESS or COMPLEXITY,TIME or EFFORT,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,Becoming a Learning Company,-How do we get started?,SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,Work with
12、 the board of directors Work out from the human resources department A joint union and management initiative Set up a series of task forces Run a consciousness-raising development programme Work with the strategic planning cycle Begin with diagnosis Start with a community conference or teach in Star
13、t with one department Major on one of the key dimensions (e.g. informating ideas, technology and software through organization),SMWEI JiangSchool ofManagemt,pOXLp7v0djZKylHSJr3WxBmHK6NJ2GhiBeFZ7R4I30kA1DkaGhn3XtKknBYCUDxqA7FHYi2CHhI92tgKQcWA3PtGZ7R4I30kA1DkaGhn3XtKknBYCUDxqA7FHYi2CHhI92tgKQcWA3PtGsh
14、Ls50cLmTWN60eo8Wgqv7XAv2OHUm32WGeaUwYDIAWGMeR4I30kA1DkaGhn3XtKknBYCUDxqA7FHYi2CHhI92tgKQcWA3PtGZ7R4I30kA1DkaGtgKQcWA3PtGZ7R4I30kA1DkaGhn3XtKknBYCUDxqA7FHYi2CHhI92tgKQcWA3PtGshLs50cLmTWN60eo8Wgqv7XAv2OHUm32WGeaUwYDIAWGMeR4I30kA1DkaGhn3XtKknBYCUDxqA7FHYi2CHhI92tgKQcWA3PtGZ7R4I30kA1DkaGhn3XtKknBYCUDxqA7FHYi2CHhI92tgKQcWA3PtGshLs50cLmTWN60eo8Wgqv7XAv2OHUm32WGeaUwYDIAWGMes02GshLs50cLmTWN60eo8Wgqv7XAv2OHUm32WGeaUwYDIAWGMes02dLPqafkFGlzcvv2YiRQYHbhR8AI1LKULh3xvjDzkEAMGr8xbwF1bH1oIM30E7xp,
