Replying to Andrew Campbell in LO29761 --
Andrew was replying to Ceoji Singh in LO29729 --
>ceoji singh <ceoji2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >I have been working on organizational learning for quite sometime, but
> >there seems to be a recuring problem of its boundaries not being defined
> >properly. I was wondering what is its relationship with Organizational
> >Culture and Change management.
>
> >Is there a paper which absorbs the material on the topic and presents a
> >framework of the ideas that make up this subject? Or is the field still
> >dispersed as theoretical islands?
Andrew replied (in part):
>First, your
>above expression shows an interesting mental models, ie.
>separate-domains-thinking (LO, Change Management, Org Culture, etc. ) and
>the challenge of managing their relationship, or integration etc.
I found Ceoji's inquiry interesting, too, but because of what I saw as a
natural "fit" of the "domains" in his inquiry.
To transform an existing (non-LO) organization into one that is an LO
(whatever that is) seems to me to be a huge exercise in culture change and
thus entails an extraordinary amount of change management. The "gap" that
many people are fond of citing whenever change from A to A' is discussed
is defined by the before and after states of the organization in question
(non-LO v. LO). The solution path clearly entails changes to the
organization's culture and change management ranks right up there as one
of the chief means of effecting that transformation.
So, to answer Ceoji's question directly, the relationship between an LO
and the organization's culture is that an organization is likely to be
judged as being an LO (or not being one) based in part at least on certain
qualities or characteristics that are also likely to define, in part at
least, the organization's culture. The relationship between the culture
of the organization and change management is that change management is a
way of operating upon culture so as to produce a culture that possesses
certain qualities that also make of it a learning organization (LO).
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Fred Nickols
Distance Consulting
nickols@safe-t.net
www.nickols.us
--Fred Nickols <nickols@safe-t.net>
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