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Bond is the network for over 290 UK-based non-governmental organizations working in the international development and development education. The organization stresses the barriers to organizational learning as due to bias for action, failure to hold discussions, and lack of commitment. On the other hand, organizations may fail to grow due to political issues and these are most common in the United States. The writer then gives the solutions to these barriers, which among them are; changing the ways of thinking, transfer of knowledge, and skills and good governance. China has already achieved this and it is continually improving on organizational learning, which makes it to have the fastest growing economy in the world.
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Dierkes Meinolf from New York, Oxford University is an author of various books. In this book, the author stresses on the learning strategies and process of Chinese firms. He argues that the success of the Chinese firms is because of implementation of good organizational and learning knowledge. The Chinese government is well connected to the global market that makes its economy to grow due to the different innovations and qualitative improvement of the existing manufacturing firms. The area where the Chinese economy has improved is on the manufacturing and processing sectors where they range higher than the Americans.
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Learning phase, firms started to build alliances with international respected companies, such as, possible competitors or acquisitions, absorbing the information about new technology and services, and know-how to improve their own brand. However, achieving this phase was no easy, China had its doors closed for foreign businesses for decades. They needed to train their key managers about how international companies work and manufacturing skills.
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Experiential learning theory, conversational learning, and seminar practices combine to shape an educational experience that is grounded in principles of appreciative inquiry.
When someone spoke about the phrase “Organizational Development” I need to admit I did not know what they were talking about. Even up to the first class, I was still puzzled about what organizational development was, despite having read the first twelve chapters in Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change by Rothwell, Stavros, Sullivan, et.al. I felt as if I was learning another foreign language and was not sure of myself. Now, that we endured four face-to-face classes in Education Organization Development, I can now say that I understand the material in the class. As the halfway point has drawn to a close, there are five topics that were explained in either the Rothwell textbook, supplemental readings or class lectures that have stuck with me and had me thinking over and over again about the core topic of organizational development.
China's development is praised by the whole world. Its developments are not only in the economic aspect, but as well in its foreign affairs. Compared with other developed countries, China is a relatively young country. It began constructing itself in 1949. After 30 years of growth, company ownership had experienced unprecedented changes. Entirely, non-state-owned companies can now be more involved in sectors that used to be monopolized by state-owned companies.
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Literature reveals that OL improves the development by introducing new expertise, output or commercialism. Nonaka & Takuchi (1995) argued that learning is vital for product innovation which means that it is not limited to only acquisition and retention of knowledge but it is used to get the required outcomes.
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Picture a ninth grade student sifting through piles of papers that are stuck between the pages of their textbook looking for their paper that is being collected. Now imagine a tenth grade student searching through a massive pile of math papers that are past due in hopes they can get some credit. No more onto an eleventh grade student who is frantically searching through a pile of assignments in a no name basket with a small amount of hope to locate their assignment in order to get full credit. Finally, a senior is receiving their written paper back, with feedback, from the teacher stating they missed answering questions two and three. What common theme is there between these? Missing assignments, lost papers, and incomplete tasks are commonalities