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Workplace Learning, 2nd Edition
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Workplace Learning, 2nd Edition

by Nigel Paine
October 2021
Beginner
264 pages
7h 34m
English
Kogan Page
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02

Where did a learning culture come from?

Context

Those who work in the area of people and organizational development need to be clear about what a learning culture is. The term is being increasingly bandied about with looser and looser meaning attached. It is clearly a good thing – but we do not know how good or why!

The purpose of this chapter is to take the concept of organizational culture back to its roots and then situate the concept of a learning culture within that frame. What is clear is that these two terms are not the same, but the conditions for the latter depend to a huge extent on the nature of the former. Poor organizational cultures with a lack of trust and disengaged staff, with a climate of fear at their heart, will never ...

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ISBN: 9781398601512