Learning Organizations and Human Resource Development ADE 5387

1. Learning Organizations and Human Resource Development ADE 5387 Marc Weinstein, Ph.D. Associate Professor 360A ZEB 541-221-5515 Marc.Weinstein@fiu.edu

2. Class Schedule, January 9, 2010

3. Marc Weinstein, Ph.D. • Educational Background • Hollywood HS (‘77) • UC Berkeley, (’85) • Monterey Institute of International Studies (MS. TESOL, 1986) • MIT (Ph.D, Management, 1996)

9. MW’s overseas experience

10. MW’s Organizational experience

12. Introduce Yourself

13. Time for a break

14. Course Goals • Provide a deep understanding of theories related to the “Learning Organization” (January 9 and January 30*) • Develop HRD ideas and interventions designed to promote organizational learning (March 13 and April 3)

15. 5387 Learning Goals, Course Requirements, and Grading

16. Where is the last 20 percent?

17. Half session missed (-3) One missed class (-5) Two classes (-15) More than two (re-take class)

19. Development of HRD Intervention

20. Course overview – four meetings

21. Time for a break

24. The Five Disciplines • Systems thinking • Personal mastery • Mental model • Building shared vision • Team learning

25. Organizational Learning Disabilities • “I am my position” • The enemy is out there • Illusion of taking charge • Fixation on events • Parable of the boiled frog • Delusion of learning from experience • Myth of the management team

26. Laws of the fifth discipline (I) • Today’s problems come from yesterday’s solution • The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back • Behavior grows better before it grows worst • The easy way out usually leads us back in • The cure is usually worst than the disease

27. Laws of the Fifth Discipline (II) • Faster is slower • Small changes can produce big results, but the areas of highest leverage are often less obvious • You can have your cake and eat it too • Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two elephants • There is no blame

28. Traditional linear thinking USSR builds warheads Threat to US US needs to arm US builds warheads Threat to USSR USSR needs to arm

29. Systems representation of arms race

30. System approaches • Seeing interrelationships rather than cause-effect • Seeing processes of change rather than snapshots

31. Archetype 1 – Limits to growth

32. Limits to growth – Professional Firm • Saturation of Market

33. Limits to growth – Professional Firm • Threat to traditional management control

34. Create your own…