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Organization Culture Change

The Performance Improvement Blog

In the online course that I teach for ASTD on Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , one of the questions I hear most often is, “How can I change the culture in my company when there is little support from management and our unions resist any change that might affect the work rules?”

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Assessing Your Organizational Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

To what extent does your organization have a learning culture? Look around your organization. What is your current culture? Using Edgar Schein ’s definition of organizational culture, you’ll want to know to what extent: Underlying beliefs and assumptions support learning in your organization.

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RETHINKING LEARNING CULTURE

Learnnovators

When speaking of a code of conduct, we always refer to business-critical tasks, such as behavior in operational dealings with vendors, customers, competitors and colleagues. It’s first of all a little ironic that ‘business-critical’ absolutely never includes learning…! But that’s where my argument takes root. Emphatically not.

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Why Your Organization Needs a Learning Culture

The Performance Improvement Blog

A learning culture is a community of workers continuously and collectively seeking performance improvement through new knowledge, new skills, and new applications of knowledge and skills to achieve the goals of the organization. A learning culture is an environment in which learning how to learn is valued and accepted.

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How to Create a Learning Culture in Organizations

The Performance Improvement Blog

Several excellent blog posts have recently come to my attention that, when combined, provide a how-to for creating a learning culture in organizations. One of these posts appears in Jane Hart’s blog, Learning in the Social Workplace. training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., communities of practice).

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Organizational Learning in the Age of Ideas

The Performance Improvement Blog

Most organizations are “locked in an industrial mindset.” They think of their workers as cogs in the wheels of progress, doing what they’re told, not smart enough to figure out how best to do their jobs or improve their organizations. Managers in these organizations are needed to tell workers what to do and how to do it.

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Learning Organization is Culture, Processes, and Leadership

The Performance Improvement Blog

Organizational learning” and “learning organization” are terms that continue to be misused. It seems like these days any business, nonprofit, or government agency that provides training and education to its employees calls itself a learning organization. Work and learning must be part of the same process.