Strategy as Organizing

Organizing is about creating environments that mediate between the tensions organization / disorganization etc

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• • Employee as commodity
  • Employee as resource
  • Employee as customer TQM/JIT. They have choices. sanctions, participate

In society

• • Employee as family member - paternalism
  • Employee as team member

Marquardt and Reynolds: What constitutes a learning organization

• • capitalizes on uncertainty - source of growth
  • Creating new knowledge is part of strategy
  • Embraces change
  • Managers as mentors
  • Culture of feedback
  • Holistic system view of org
  • Encourages risk taking
  • Self devpt
  • Cross functional work teams
  • Continuous improvement
  • Avoid bureaucracy and turf wars
  • Devlops networks
  • Has systems for sharing learning knowledge
  • Shared values

Is organizational learning an oxymoron - it means to disorganize and increase variety where as to forget assumes reduced variety

How do you encourage workers to share tacit knowledge - Mining workers mind - need rewards and career system Shared cognitive structures improve efficiency but reduce learning Proctor and Ackroyd see a McD's - low cost efficeint production Double loop thinking requires downtime but is taht a waste of resources