This book revisits one of management theory's most enduring aspirations, the learning organisation, through three decades of research, practice, and reflection. Structured in three temporal layers (1993, 2013, and 2026), the book traces the evolution of cyber-systemic Human Resource Development from its origins in Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Soft Systems Methodologies, through empirical field research with leading German corporations, to a deepened contemporary understanding of how organisations can genuinely learn, self-regulate, and regenerate.
The book offers a rigorous yet reflective framework for moving HRD beyond individual learning toward collective and organisational learning, grounded in management cybernetics, second-order systems thinking, and the author's thirty years of corporate and consultancy practice.
It will appeal to HR practitioners, organisational developers, management consultants, and systems thinkers who sense the persistent gap between the concept of the learning organisation and organisational realities. Researchers in systems sciences, cybernetics, and organisation studies will find both a historically significant primary text and a theoretically rich contemporary synthesis.
Readers will gain conceptual tools and practical models for designing self-reflective, resilient organisations, and an invitation to let the question of organisational learning evolve into a lived, generative understanding.
| ISBN: | 9781041213352 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2026 |
| Author: | Louis Klein |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 140 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Focus on Business and Management |
| Genres: |
Personnel and human resources management Organizational theory and behaviour Business strategy |
This book revisits one of management theory's most enduring aspirations, the learning organisation, through three decades of research, practice, and reflection. Structured in three temporal layers (1993, 2013, and 2026), the book traces the evolution of cyber-systemic Human Resource Development from its origins in Stafford Beer's Viable System Model and Soft Systems Methodologies, through empirical field research with leading German corporations, to a deepened contemporary understanding of how organisations can genuinely learn, self-regulate, and regenerate.The book offers a rigorous yet reflective framework for moving HRD beyond individual learning toward collective and organisational learning, grounded in management cybernetics, second-order systems thinking, and the author's thirty years of corporate and consultancy practice.It will appeal to HR practitioners, organisational developers, management consultants, and systems thinkers who sense the persistent gap between the concept of the learning organisation and organisational realities.
Realising the Learning Organisation Through System Thinking features in the following genres: Personnel and human resources management, Organizational theory and behaviour, Business strategy
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Realising the Learning Organisation Through System Thinking was written by Louis Klein and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Realising the Learning Organisation Through System Thinking has 140 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Focus on Business and Management series
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