Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Review of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

Review of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Book Review The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Reviewed by DeWayne Kurpius By Peter M. Senge Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doubleday, 1992 pushes back;" "the easy way out usually leads back Peter Senge introduces his book, The Fifth in" and "there is no blame." He notes that when Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning following systems thinking there is no one to Organization, declaring "systems thinking" as that blame. Organizational problems belong to the fifth discipline. He defines his view of the organization and they must be defined, owned, primary functions of an organization by relying and solved by the organization regardless of the heavily on human factors as the essential vari- market place, the government, the competitors, able; identifying five, interdependent core or other external factors. disciplines of the learning organization. These In a chapter entitled, "The Principle of Lever- are: age," he reinforces the importance and power of 1) personal mastery, systems thinking and behaving. Asserting that 2) mental models, "systems thinking is leverage," he argues that organizations must understand how actions and 3) building a shared vision changes in structure can lead to significant 4) team learning, and 5) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research American Psychological Association

Review of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

Download PDF
2 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-psychological-association/review-of-the-fifth-discipline-the-art-and-practice-of-the-learning-Q3f0OioMZ0

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 American Psychological Association
ISSN
1065-9293
eISSN
1939-0149
DOI
10.1037/1061-4087.45.4.31
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Book Review The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization Reviewed by DeWayne Kurpius By Peter M. Senge Massachusetts Institute of Technology Doubleday, 1992 pushes back;" "the easy way out usually leads back Peter Senge introduces his book, The Fifth in" and "there is no blame." He notes that when Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning following systems thinking there is no one to Organization, declaring "systems thinking" as that blame. Organizational problems belong to the fifth discipline. He defines his view of the organization and they must be defined, owned, primary functions of an organization by relying and solved by the organization regardless of the heavily on human factors as the essential vari- market place, the government, the competitors, able; identifying five, interdependent core or other external factors. disciplines of the learning organization. These In a chapter entitled, "The Principle of Lever- are: age," he reinforces the importance and power of 1) personal mastery, systems thinking and behaving. Asserting that 2) mental models, "systems thinking is leverage," he argues that organizations must understand how actions and 3) building a shared vision changes in structure can lead to significant 4) team learning, and 5)

Journal

Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research – American Psychological Association

Published: Jan 1, 1993

There are no references for this article.