LDR502 Organizations as Learning Communities
The rapidly changing environment has produced a significant shift in organizational theory and practice. In times of rapid change, the ability of an organization to learn emerges as a primary competency. Students will engage organizational theory to help them identify and understand the unique organizational culture within which they function, and to formulate interventions to enhance learning and innovation. Students will also interact with learning theory to help them develop effective approaches to encouraging and facilitating learning within the organization.
Credits: 3
Student learning outcomes
- Integrate an understanding of organizational theory with comprehension of learning theory.
- Identify unique characteristics, cultural norms, strengths and challenges contributing to the group dynamic of an organization.
- Envision the possibilities resident within the organization, seeing it not as a collection of individual talents but as a synergy of complementary ingredients.
- Determine what stands between the organization and those possibilities and assess what it will take to produce such synergy.
- Initiate and facilitate collaborative learning as a foundation for team productivity.