Building the Learning Organization: Mastering the 5 Elements for Corporate Learning - Hardcover

Marquardt, Michael J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891061657 ISBN 13: 9780891061656

Publisher: UNKNO, 2002

Synopsis

Dozens of updated and new case studies show the Systems Learning Organization model in action and illustrate how five distinct subsystems—learning, organization, people, knowledge, and technology—support each other to enhance the quality and impact of learning.

About this title

From the Publisher

This updated, second edition is co-published with ASTD (American Society for Training & Development). The first edition was awarded Book of the Year 1997 by the Academy of Human Resource Development.

From the Inside Flap

As Michael Marquardt vividly demonstrates in this new edition of his award-winning classic, learning is the key to success and survival in today's organizations. Drawing on his own firsthand experience and the best practices of leading companies around the globe, this world-renowned author, educator, and consultant distills the strategies and action steps needed to harness the collective genius of people in organizations to build, maintain, and sustain the next generation of learning organizations.

In this volume, Marquardt brings up-to-date his guidance on how to build a flexible, adaptable learning organization that achieves strategic advantages in the global world of business. Presenting his highy successful Systems Learning Organization model, he illustrates how its five distinct subsystems--learning, organization, people, knowledge, and technology--can support and energize one another to enhance the quality and impact of learning. BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION offers specific recommendations for using the tools of action learning to build each of the critical subsystems and includes a variety of assessment tools and sixteen action steps needed to form powerful coalitions, connect learning with business operations, cut bureaucracy and streamline the structure, extend organizational learning to the entire business chain, capture learning and release knowledge, and create effective business outcomes to further organizational goals.

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0891061657
• ISBN 13: 9780891061656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240