Becoming a Learning Organization
| Purpose Becoming a learning organization has become a common theme in organizational theory and development.Thestudent will exhibit a clear understanding of what learning looks like in a healthcare organization and provideexamples. |
| Logistics Submit on BlackBoard as a Word document, if Word is not available document must be submitted in rich text so that it can be converted to Word. The paper must be no less than 1050 words but the studentis not limited to 1050 words (No plagiarism) There are no style or formatting requirements. Any assignment not submitted timely will receive a 10% reduction |
| Requirements Refer to Chapter 6 in Crossing the Quality Chasm, how does the author suggest healthcare organization can and should learn. Define ––Learning Organization, from your personal perspective and well informed by your research.This is your individual interpretation. What is to be gained from organizational learning?Compare to the theories covered in the chapters 20-23. What examples were you able to uncover from your research, how do these apply to healthcare? The questions above are only meant to provide a starting place for your coverage of this topic.Give some thought to your own career as a healthcare manager, how would you like to part of a learning organization? |
| Resources and Useful Information Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century; by Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy. Amy C. Edmondson. ISBN: 978-0-787-97093-2. Apr 2012, Jossey-Bass |
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An organization is a group of individuals with a common purpose and puts resources together with the aim of pursuing it. An organization can also be a group of people working together to achieve an objective which individual members could not deliver on their own (Senge, 2014). The common aim is arrived at through capacity building and directing resources towards creating results they all care about. Organizational learning is the act of educating, transferring and retaining skills and knowledge within an organization and its member staffs. Therefore, a learning organization can be understood as the process through which an organization transforms itself through continuous…
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