Embedding+New+Knowledge

//Embedding New Knowledge//
 * Organizational learning includes //embedding new knowledge// and practices in organizational theories-in-use or routines.**
 * “In order for organizational learning to occur, learning agents’ discoveries, inventions, and evaluations must be embedded in organizational memory. They must be encoded in the individual images and the shared maps of organizational theory-in-use from which individual members will subsequently act.” (Argyris and Schon, 1978).


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The video clip here from the 1998 movie //Saving Private Ryan// shows the reaction of General Marshall to learning that a mother has lost three sons during the D-Day invasion. The mission of that day was to establish a foothold on mainland Europe for Allied Forces to use as an access point to fight the Germans. As many historians have written this invasion was the turning point of World War II in the European theater. Learning that one mother lost three sons while a fourth was still out fighting General Marshall refers to a letter written by Abraham Lincoln (//boundary object)// to help him reach a conclusion on what to do. General Marshall decides, after reading the letter, that a new focus is to be finding the woman's last surviving son and get him home safely. The general had to //broker// new meaning within the command staff. This decision and one's like it in a historical non-fictional sense helped the military learn as an organization. The military has since discouraged siblings from being within the same area or serving on the same ship during war time.

 Collinson, V., & Cook, T. F. (2007). //Organizational Learning: Improving learning, teaching, and leading in school systems//. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

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