Download or read book Organisational Learning in NGOs written by Bruce Britton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Learning NGO written by Bruce Britton and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the learning organization has spawned a number of books within the corporate sector. The ideas underpinning this concept have a generic appeal and as a result, organizational learning is the subject of increasing interest in the NGO sector and the not-for-profit world more widely. This paper sets out to examine the relevance of the learning organization concept for NGOs and concludes that the ideas have significant relevance for the sector. The paper aims to provide NGO staff with a conceptual framework for the subject - its purpose is not simply to describe the characteristics of a learning organization but to encourage NGOs to examine their organizations in the light of these characteristics. For this reason the paper includes a diagnostic tool (the learning NGO questionnaire) which NGOs can use to assess their current capacity for organizational learning. The paper seeks to stimulate ideas about how NGOs can rise to the challenge of learning from, adapting and continually improving the quality of what they do, if they are to remain relevant as agents of social change in the 21st century.
Download or read book Development and the Learning Organisation written by Jethro Pettit and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As development NGOs and aid agencies embrace the idea of "becoming learning organizations," they are increasingly concerned with knowledge generation and organizational learning. In this volume, development scholars and practitioners introduce new approaches and models, illustrating individual and group learning practices across cultures and organizational efforts to put theory into practice.
Download or read book Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs written by Tiina Kontinen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience. Despite the overwhelming discourses of NGOs as learning organisations, little is known about the phenomenon of learning within NGOs. As constantly changing buzzwords and institutional approaches abound and old ideas and concepts are "re-discovered", development NGOs are often accused of trying to reinvent the wheel as they struggle to escape from the challenges of development amnesia. Based on detailed empirical data on the everyday practices and accounts of development practitioners, this book moves between the boundaries of organisational institutionalism, learning theories, management and ethnographies of NGOs practices to investigate the many faces of organisational learning in an attempt to counteract development amnesia. Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs will be an essential guide for students, scholars and development practitioners with an interest in development management and organisational theory.
Download or read book NGOs and Organizational Change written by Alnoor Ebrahim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebrahim analyses the organizational evolution of NGOs combining case studies with extensive review of literature.
Download or read book Beyond the Learning Organisation written by Mike Geppert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. In contemporary management literature, the idea that managers and organizations should learn and provide widespread capabilities for learning to learn is gaining popularity. Some see reflexive thinking and learning as being the proper response to the transformation of industrial society. However, this study is not concerned too much with the reasons for learning, but is more about how actors and groups of actors actually learn and the resources at their disposal for learning. The study aims to show that differences in social context do matter, and analyzes the organizational learning process in the political and social transformation of East Germany.
Download or read book The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change written by Barefoot Collective (South Africa) and published by The Barefoot Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society. It has been developed by the Barefoot Collective. The guide, with its supporting website, includes tried and tested concepts, approaches, stories and activities. It's purpose is to help stimulate and enrich the practice of anyone supporting organisations and social movements in their challenges of working, learning, growing and changing to meet the needs of our complex world. Although it is aimed at leaders and facilitators of civil society organisations, we hope it will be useful to anyone interested in fostering healthy human organisation in any sphere of life"--Barefoot Collective website.
Download or read book How Organizations Learn written by Patrick L. Townsend and published by Quality Press. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations learn effectively by following a three-step cycle: investigating the situation; identifying failures and successes; and institutionalizing the lessons so that they become “the way things are done.” This book examines this 3-I learning cycle as it is used in the United States Army. Prominent companies such as General Electric, Motorola, Harley-Davidson, and Amoco have taken advantage of the army’s experiences as they’ve moved through this cycle, reinventing themselves as learning organizations. These companies and more have gleaned valuable lessons from the army’s After-Action Reviews (AARs) and Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALLs). Parallels are drawn between the Army’s experience and the quality movement. Among the similarities are the idea that everything can be improved and the emphasis on integrating working and learning, with each supporting the other. The concepts of AARs and CALLs, like many quality tools, are relatively straightforward and easy to understand. Nonetheless, they require dedication and perseverance to implement fully and sustain. As with all quality concepts and tools, though, the results easily justify the effort!
Download or read book Organizational Learning in the Global Context written by M. Leann Brown and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with case studies all based on original research, this volume investigates how various organizations exploit experience and knowledge to change their activities and understanding of the world. The volume addresses a variety of issue areas such as the US embargo against Cuba, food security, Colombian drug trafficking, terrorist groups, the Catholic Church, and foreign aid agencies.
Download or read book Organisational Learning Practices in NGOs in Coast Province Of Kenya written by David Barissa Ringa and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Normative Practitioner written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizational Learning written by J. Wellman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations capture and deploy what they have learned in four ways: Culture, Old Pros, Archives, and Processes. This book describes the four approaches, their strength and shortcomings, and their interactions.
Download or read book Information Systems and Non governmental Development Organisations NGOs written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizational Learning A Framework for Public Administration written by Karol Olejniczak and published by Karol Olejniczak. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to face the challenge of effective organizational learning in our public policies, we need to address three pressing questions: 1. How does learning work in our public organizations? 2. What promising practices can we implement to advance learning in public organizations? 3. What changes in public management are required to combine learning with the growing demands of performance and accountability? This book is an attempt to address those questions in a systematic and empirical manner. The answers presented in this volume are the result of a four-year empirical research project conducted in Polish ministries and study visits in public institutions of twelve countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Download or read book Organizational Learning and Transformative Capacity written by Gamal Mohamed Mohamed Shehata and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facing Up to the Learning Organization Challenge written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Importance of Organizational Learning for Organizational Sustainability written by Peter A. C. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
