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Publication Date: 2018-Jul
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Approaches for Organizational Learning: A Literature Review
Basten, Dirk; Haamann, Thilo
SAGE Open, v8 n3 Jul 2018
Organizational learning (OL) enables organizations to transform individual knowledge into organizational knowledge. Organizations struggle to implement practical approaches due to the lack of concrete prescriptions. We performed a literature review to identify OL approaches and linked these approaches to OL theories. We synthesized 18 OL approaches across three domains: people (seven approaches), processes (nine), and technologies (two). Furthermore, we suggest two directions for future research: referring to the evaluation of our results and addressing the contingencies of OL effectiveness. Our mapping guides organizations in the design of learning processes to improve long-term performance. Although relying on a single approach is unlikely to comprehensively enable OL, our mapping facilitates the combination of several approaches aligned with organizational culture and processes.
Descriptors: Learning, Organizational Culture, Learning Theories, Learning Strategies, Technology, Knowledge Management
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Language: English
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