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Organizational Ecology Has a Bright Future.

By Organization Studies - Organizational ecology is here to stay. Clearly, Michael Hannan and John Freeman's paradigm-building programme, which started with their classic 1977 article 'The population ecology of organizations' in the American Journal of Sociology, has been successful. By now, at the start of the 21st century, the flourishing organizational ecology population has produced hundreds of studies into the fate of industries and organizations (e.g. Baum 1996). (Added: 10-Dec-2002 Hits: 1022 )

Principles for Creating a Statewide Online Learning Organization: The Process and Decisions Underlying the Creation of Colorado Online Learning

By Stevan Kalmon - Note: This article was originally published in The Technology Source (http://ts.mivu.org/) as: Stevan Kalmon "Principles for Creating a Statewide Online Learning Organization: The Process and Decisions Underlying the Creation of Colorado Online Learning" The Technology Source, January/February 2003. Available online at http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1034. The article is reprinted here with permission of the publisher. (Added: 11-Dec-2006 Hits: 343 )

Describing Culture: From Diagnosis to Inquiry

By Richard Seel - For the change agent working in a traditional OD framework, describing culture is the first step in a rational change process which involves moving an organisation from ‘here’ to ‘there’. For the practitioner who works from a complex or living systems perspective, describing culture is also vital—this time as a key part of the change process itself. This article espouses the second approach and outlines a number of ways of facilitating a rich collaborative inquiry into organisational culture. It also presents a ‘simple rules’ approach to cultural description which offers a new way of enabling people to articulate their own culture and negotiate to change it. (Added: 31-May-2003 Hits: 2526 )

Organizational Development

By n a - The concept of the learning organization is that the successful organization must — and does — continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in environment and to grow. This raises a range of scholarly and theoretical questions relating to what it means for an organization to learn, and practical questions around what organizations need to do in order to learn and adapt. (Added: 11-Dec-2006 Hits: 1455 )

Link Staff Training with Organizational Improvement Goals

By Patrice Spath - To continuously improve the quality and safety of patient care, healthcare organizations must link employee education and training programs with strategic improvement goals. (Added: 28-Nov-2003 Hits: 1360 )

Addictive Organizations

By Tom Heuerman - Many people in organizations are in emotional pain. The suffering is sharp and searing--deep in the souls of so many. The source of much of this unnecessary anguish is, I believe, a worldview that alienates people from others, themselves, and the natural world. Instead of feeling their heartache and acting to end much of it by changing their beliefs and behavior, people separate themselves from their inner lives and pursue mechanically the promises of Newtonian science (Added: 23-Feb-2001 Hits: 1175 )

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