Bureaucratic boundaries for collective learning in industrial work

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 296-310

  Kira, Mari ^a   Frieling, Ekkehart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Sustainable development; Team learning; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347380347     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620710757851     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Alasoini, T., Ramstad, E. and Rouhiainen, N. (Eds) (2005), The Finnish Workplace Development Programme as an Expanding Activity. Results, Challenges, Opportunities, Tykes Reports 47, Ministry of Labour, Helsinki.
2. Barley, S.R. and Tolbert, P.S. (1997), "Institutionalization and structuration: Studying the links between action and institution", Organization Studies, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 93-117.
3. Barnett, R. (1999), "Learning to work and working to learn", in Boud, D. and Garrick, J. (Eds), Understanding Learning at Work, Routledge, London, pp. 29-43.
4. Billett, S. (1995), "Workplace learning: Its potential and limitations", Education +Training, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 20-7.
5. Billett, S. (2001), "Learning through work: Workplace affordances and individual engagement", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 13 Nos 5/6, pp. 209-14.
6. Cresswell, J.W. and Miller, D.L. (2000), "Determining validity in qualitative inquiry", Theory into Practice, Vol. 39 No. 3, pp. 124-30.
7. Crossan, M.M., Lane, H.W. and White, R.E. (1999), "An organizational learning framework: From intuition to institution", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 522-37.
8. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990), Flow. The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Harper Perennial, New York, NY.
9. Dankbaar, B. (1997), "Lean production: Denial, confirmation or extension of sociotechnical systems design", Human Relations, Vol. 50 No. 5, pp. 567-83.
10. Emans,B. (2004), Interviewing. Theory, Techniques and Training, Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen.
11. Emery, F. (1995), "Participative design: Effective, flexible and successful, now!", Journal of Quality and Participation, Vol. 18 No. 1, pp. 6-10.
12. Evans, K. and Kersh, N. (2004), "Recognition of tacit skills and knowledge. Sustaining learning outcomes in workplace environments", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 16 Nos 1/2, pp. 63-74.
13. Fenwick, T. and Rubenson, K. (2005), "Taking stock: A review of research on learning in work 1999-2004", paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, December 12-14.
14. Fischer, M. (2003), "Challenges and open questions raised by the concept of the learning organization", in Nyhan, B., Kelleher, M., Cressey, P. and Poell, R. (Eds), Facing up the Learning Organization Challenge. Key Issues from a European Perspective, Cedefop Reference Series 41-II,Vol. II, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, pp. 33-49.
15. Fitzgerald, L.A. and Van Eijnatten, F.M. (1998), "Letting go for control: The art of managing the chaordic enterprise", The International Journal of Business Transformation, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 261-70.
16. Forslin,J. (1990), Det Klippta Bandet - En VOLVO-Industri Byter Kultur (The Clipped Assembly Line - A VOLVO-Industry Changes Culture), Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm.
17. Frieling, E., Bernard, H., Bigalk, D. and Müller, R.F. (2006), Lernen durch Arbeit (Learning Through Work), Waxmann, Münster.
18. Gerth, H.H. and Mills, C.W. (1985), From Max Weber. Essays in Sociology, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.
19. Heckscher,C. (1994), "Defining the post-bureaucratic type", in Heckscher, C. and Donnellon, A. (Eds), The Post-Bureaucratic Organization: New Perspectives on Organizational Change, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, pp. 14-62.
20. Heckscher, C. and Donnellon, A. (Eds) (1994), The Post-Bureaucratic Organization: New Perspectives on Organizational Change, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
21. Heylighen, F. (1996), "growth of structural and functional complexity during evolution", in Heylighen, F. and Aerts, D. (Eds), The Evolution of Complexity, Kluwer, Dordrecht, available at: http://pcp.lanl.gove/HEYL.html.
22. Howard, A. (1995), "Rethinking the psychology of work", in Howard, A. (Ed.), The Changing Nature of Work, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, pp. 511-55.
23. Illeris, K. (2004a), "Transformative learning in the perspective of a comprehensive learning theory", Journal of Transformative Education, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 79-89.
24. Illeris, K. (2004b), "A model for learning in working life", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 16 No. 8, pp. 431-41.
25. L. and McBey, K. (1999), "The lessons of work: Toward an understanding of the implications of the workplace for adult learning and development", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 11 No. 6, pp. 192-201.
26. Kira, M. (2007), "Learning in the process of industrial work - a comparative study between Finland, Sweden, and Germany", International Journal of Training and Development, forthcoming.
27. Kira, M. (2003), "From good work to sustainable development - human resources consumption and regeneration in the post-bureaucratic working life", doctoral thesis, Department of Industrial Economics and Management, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
28. Kira, M. and Van Eijnatten, F.M. (2006), "Chaordic work holarchies: towards sustainable development of the organization of work", paper presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the European Chaos and Complexity in Organisations Network (ECCON), Bergen an Zee, October 20-21.
29. Kolb, D.A. (1984), Experiential Learning. Experience as the Source of Learning and Development, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
30. Mezirow, J. (1997), "Transformative learning: Theory to practice", New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, Vol. 74, pp. 5-12.
31. Miles, R.E. and Snow, C.C. (1990), "Organizational fit", in Pugh, D.S. (Ed.), Organization Theory. Selected Readings, 3rd ed., Penguin, London, pp. 124-45.
32. Nonaka, I. (1994), "Dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation", Organization Science, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 14-37.
33. Paloniemi, S. (2006), "Experience, competence and workplace learning", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 18 Nos 7/8, pp. 439-50.
34. Pfeffer, J. (1998), The Human Equation. Building Profits by Putting People First, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA.
35. Sandberg, J. (2000), "Understanding human competence at work: An interpretative approach", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 9-25.
36. Schoenfeld, A.H. (1999), "Looking toward the 21st century: challenges of educational theory and practice", Educational Researcher, Vol. 28 No. 7, pp. 4-14.
37. Skule, S. (2004), "Learning conditions at work: A framework to understand and assess informal learning in the workplace", International Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 8-20.
38. Svensson, L., Brulin, G., Ellström, P.-E. and Widegren, Ö. (Eds) (2002), Interaktiv Forskning - för Utveckling av Teori och Praktik, (Interac Ive Research - For the Development of Theory and Practice), Arbetsliv i Omvandling 2002:7, Arbetslivsinstitutet, Stockholm.
39. Taylor, F.W. (1998), The Principles of Scientific Management, Engineering and Management Press, Norcross, GA (originally published 1911).
40. Thorsrud, E. and Emery, F.E. (1969), Medinflytande och Engagemang i Arbetet. Norska Försök med Självstyrande Grupper (Participation and Engagement at Work. Norwegian Experiments with Self-Regulating Groups), Utvecklingsrådet för Samarbetsfrågor, Stockholm.
41. Van Eijnatten, F.M. (1993), The Paradigm that Changed the Work Place, Arbetslivscentrum/Van Gorcum, Stockholm/Assen.
42. Van Eijnatten, F.M. (2004), "Chaordic systems thinking. Some suggestions for a complexity framework to inform a learning organization", The Learning Organization, Vol. 11 No. 6, pp. 430-49.
43. Van Eijnatten, F.M. and Hoogerwerf, E.C.L. (2000), "Searching for new grounds in STS: Beyond open systems thinking", in Coakes, E., Willis, D. and Lloyd-Jones, R. (Eds), The New Sociotech: Graffiti on the Long Wall, Springer Verlag, London, pp. 39-50.
44. Vartiainen, M. (1994), Työn Muutoksen Työvälineet. Muutoksen Hallinnan Sosiotekniset Menetelmät (The Tools for Changing Work. The Sociotechnical Methods for Mastering Change), Otatieto, Espoo.
45. Vartiainen, M., Pirskanen, S. and Mattsson, M. (1999), "Ryhmä- ja tiimityö innovatiivisina työtapoina" ("Group and team work as innovative work methods"), in Alasoini, T. and Halme, P. (Eds), Oppivat Organisaatiot, Oppivat Yhteiskunta, (Learning Organizations, Learning Society), Tykes Reports 7, Ministry of Labour, Helsinki, pp. 50-79.
46. Wilber, K. (1996), The Brief History of Everything, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin.
47. Wilhelmson, L. (2006), "Transformative learning in joint leadership", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 18 Nos 7/8, pp. 495-507.
48. Womack, J.P., Jones, D.T. and Roos, D. (1990), The Machine that Changed the World, Rawson Associates, New York, NY.