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Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 17th Edition
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Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 17th Edition

by Michael Armstrong, Stephen Taylor
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
776 pages
29h 22m
English
Kogan Page
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46 Organizational learning

Chapter objectives

The aim of this chapter is to explain how learning takes place at organizational as well as individual levels. Reference is made to the notion of the learning organization which at first sight looks the same as organizational learning. But they are not. The chapter is set out under the following headings:

  1. Organizational learning defined

  2. The purpose of organizational learning

  3. The process of organizational learning

  4. Single- and double-loop learning

  5. Developing organizational learning

  6. The learning organization

Organizational learning defined

It was suggested by Tsang (1997: 75) that: ‘It is commonly agreed that the concept of organizational learning is complex and multidimensional.’ It has been defined ...

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