employee adaptive behaviors and performance. This implied that the ability of the employees to respond to new changes in their firms is relatively reduced. However, organizations with learning organizational structures enjoy the benefits of positive adaptive behaviors and performance from their employees since they are highly motivated and autonomous to take new responsibilities in the firm. Therefore, the authors recommend the need for the use of learning organizations in organic and mechanistic structures as a way of improving the employee adaptive performance and behaviors (Kanten et al., 2015). In this case, learning structure will play the mediating role in these two structures.
The type of structure within an organization also influences the attitude the employees have towards… Continue Reading...
not only the efficiency level of employees, but also their morale.
The five disciplines of learning organizations, as formulated by Peter Senge, include “personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision, team learning and systems thinking” (Wilkinson, 2015, p. 117). It would be prudent to assess each discipline in an attempt to describe the leadership efforts that would come in handy in my organization so as to begin practicing the said disciplines. To begin with, when it comes to building a shared vision, the relevance of fostering interaction with organizational employees cannot be overstated. In that regard, therefore, to begin practicing this particular discipline, leaders in… Continue Reading...
relationship between the two. As Wilhelm (2017) notes, “Learning organizations and the people in them learn constantly from everything they do.” They not only look at their past performance but they also look at the performance of others in the industry to see what they might be missing. They are constantly engaged in a process of continuous education to enhance production and performance. Everything the organization does is done with the view of keeping track, just like sports analysts keep track of players’ stats, to see how everyone and everything is performing, where performance is lacking, and what… Continue Reading...
and apply policy judiciously. Policy revisions become a critical part of an intelligent society and a learning organization. Just as the Constitution can be amended over time, so too can company policies. Drafting policies as practice helps to reveal the complexities and challenges involved in policy making in general. Diversity and multiple viewpoints also complicate effective policy making. Input from a variety of sources can help a policy be more universal and effective, and policy makers should always remain flexible and willing to revise.
Week 3 -- Discussion 2
Private prisons should be abolished. Mistrust of them is not only instinctual, it is also evidence-based. Privatized… Continue Reading...
