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This 8-page paper discusses the learning organization and appropriate approach to management, trust and pay in General Electric's Asia-Pacific region. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and technology companies. The company basis its growth on a learning culture along with a mission toward processes quality and a high customer service philosophy.
Other values that underlie GEs success include a spirit of innovation, staff opportunities, teamwork, respect for individuals, encouraging ideas, a passion for learning and sharing ideas,
and a connection with stakeholders including employees, customers and communities. On the surface, it may seem as though management is doing
everything right - GE seems like a utopia when it comes to connecting with stakeholders and encouraging teamwork as well as ideas and innovation. However, managing 40,000 people from diverse
backgrounds and with different agendas and styles of work is no easy task. In this paper, well examine what types of
management approaches might work with a learning organization such as GE. Well also discuss the cultural aspects that might interfere with a successful management approach in this particular company.
Appropriate Management Approach In the early days of the learning organization, much of the literature focused on the fact that developing (and
maintaining) such an organization relies on a cognitive process that would result in small changes and improvements over time (Amzi, 2008). These days, scholars point out that learning organizations thrive
on group learning and dynamics, and that learning needs to be considered from a generic systems dynamics model (Amzi, 2008). In other words, rather than the tweaking of rules and
regulations to eventually move in a learning direction, the approach to a learning organization is holistic, meaning that a decision made in one department will have a definite impact on
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