Organizational Learning How Companies and Institutions Manage and Ap

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.

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ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

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How Companies and Institutions Manage and Apply Knowledge

Jerry L. Wellman

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Organizational Learning

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

Copyright © Jerry L. Wellman, 2009. All rights reserved.

Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–0–230–60614–2 ISBN-10: 0–230–60614–8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wellman, Jerry L. Organizational learning : how companies and institutions manage and apply knowledge / Jerry L. Wellman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–230–60614–8 1. Knowledge management. 2. Organizational learning. 3. Organizational behaviour. I. Title. HD30.2.W456 2009 658.4⬘038—dc22

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A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: June 2009 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America.

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List of Figure and Tables

vii

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction

xiii

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Chapter 2 How Organizations Remember What They Know

27

Chapter 3 Culture—The Way It Is Around Here

51

Chapter 4 Old Pros—I Remember When

79

Chapter 5 Archives—It’s In Here Somewhere

97

Chapter 6 Process—The Way Things Work Around Here

125

Chapter 7 Putting Them Together

145

Chapter 8 Pragmatics of Managing Organizational Knowledge

165

Closing

193

Index

197

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