Organizing to learn: recognizing and cultivating learning communities
Doty, E.A.
Seminars for Nurse Managers 10(3): 196-205
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 1066-3851 PMID: 12271766 Document Number: 544398
One of the most effective ways to learn is in a community of people with a shared purpose. Therefore, by recognizing and cultivating the learning communities that arise within most organizational structures, we are actually organizing ourselves to learn. Using stories to inspire the reader to reflect and apply these concepts, the author explores learning communities in a variety of fields, including examples that involve entire organizations, single workgroups, and those that cross organizational boundaries.