Demystifying Organizational Learning or Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

Demystifying Organizational Learning

Author: Raanan Lipshitz

This book presents a solid, research-based conceptual framework that demystifies organizational learning and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Using an integrative approach, authors Raanan Lipshitz, Victor J. Friedman and Mischa Popper provide practitioners and researchers with tools for understanding organizational learning under real-world conditions.

This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Behavior in the departments of Management, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Sociology.

Table of Contents:

1	Demystifying organizational learning	3
2	Organizational learning mechanisms	25
3	The cultural facet : the key of productive learning	45
4	The psychological basis of productive learning	67
5	The context of organizational learning	85
6	Organizational learning and managerial channels of influence	97
7	The dissemination of knowledge	109
8	Inside an OLM : postflight reviews in the Israeli Air Force	133
9	Is training organizational learning?	149
10	High-quality organizational learning : why do some after-action reviews work and others don't?	165
11	Demystifying the learning organization I : the case of Hewlett-Packard	181
12	Demystifying the learning organization II : the case of Chaparral Steel	203
13	Putting the multi-facet model into practice	221
14	Before we go ...	245

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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

Author: Mike Featherston

The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:

-A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition. Among the most noteworthy areas discussed are the effect of global warming on consumption, the rise of the new rich, changes in the North/South divide and the new diversity of consumer culture.
-A major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question'
-An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism.
-An account of multiple and alternative modernities.
-The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China.

The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.