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"Labouring to learn": Organisational learning and mutual gains

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Alan McKinlay, Professor Abigail Marks

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Abstract

Research on organisational learning is limited in three ways; in terms of the type of organisation and the type of employees which are seen to benefit from a learning culture; and in terms of the consensual assumptions made about the nature of learning within the workplace, assumptions which contradict the reality of the workplace for most people. Other researchers have attempted to form a typology of learning; they are narrowly constructed and often internal to the enterprise; learning is often de-contextualised from other organisational processes. In response to these criticisms, we have framed and measured a holistic concept of learning that more readily takes account of organisational context. This paper presents data on learning within two traditional companies operating in the food and drinks sector. In particular it is concerned with long-term organisational learning in light of discussions of the mutual gains workplace, reflecting more general concerns about organisational behaviour. © 2000, MCB UP Limited

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Author(s): Findlay P, McKinlay A, Marks A, Thompson P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Employee Relations

Year: 2000

Volume: 22

Issue: 5

Pages: 485-502

Online publication date: 01/10/2000

ISSN (print): 0142-5455

ISSN (electronic): 1758-7069

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/01425450010349165

DOI: 10.1108/01425450010349165

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