Organizational resilience: how learning sustains organizations in crisis, disaster, and breakdown Kayes, D. Christopher
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2015Description: xvii, 171 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780199791057
- 658.3124 K2O7
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Learning as the Source of Resilience
Part I: Experience as the Source of Learning in Organizations
Chapter 1: Learning from Experience
Chapter 2: The Structure of Learning in Organizations
Chapter 3: Learning versus Performance in the Air France Flight 447 Disaster
Part II: The Breakdown of Learning
Chapter 4: A Review of Failure in Organizations
Chapter 5: From Failure to the Breakdown of Learning
Chapter 6: How Optimism and Positive Thinking Can Limit Learning
Chapter 7: Goal Setting as an Unlikely Threat to Learning
Chapter 8: Experience and Decision Making
Part III: Building Resilience through Learning
Chapter 9: Case Study: Learning From the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction
in Iraq
Chapter 10: Revisiting the Universal Dilemma of Learning in Policy, Government, and Organizational Culture
Chapter 11: Building Learning in Organizations
References
Index
In the age of knowledge, organizations survive and thrive only when they learn. All too often, when organizations are confronted with novel or changing situations, the process of learning breaks down and the result is catastrophic. In Organizational Resilience: How Learning Sustains Organizations in Crisis, Disaster, and Breakdown, D. Christopher Kayes explains why all organizational leaders should be concerned about learning and the dire consequences that may ensue if they are not.
Kayes draws on the foundational ideas of philosopher John Dewey, then connects this philosophy to contemporary studies on learning, management, and organizations. Through a wide range of examples from the realms of government, finance, engineering, healthcare, and commercial air travel, he describes how learning can help organizations weather crises and outlines specific ways that leaders can learn from their experience.
The first comprehensive review of how learning sustains organizations in challenging times, Organizational Resilience is essential reading for crisis managers, disaster-recovery team leaders, continuity-of-operations planning professionals, emergency-management professionals, and leaders at all levels who want their organizations to thrive.
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