What is organizational learning? How does it differ from the learning organization?

Meet Sue. Sue works for a mid-sized manufacturing company. Starting off as an assistant, Sue rose through the ranks of the company, demonstrating a can-do attitude and a strong work ethic. Her positive demeanor and willingness to work helped offset some of the small deficits in her other skills. After several attempts at a failed promotion, Sue appears to be stuck and wonders if she can continue working at the company or if she needs to seek other employment opportunities. She recently met a member of human resources to discuss what gaps might be preventing her from reaching further achievement. Sue is hesitant to attend training because she is not yet sure the training will help her improve enough for a promotion. Sue’s situation demonstrates an issue with individual learning.

Smiling confident stylish mature middle aged woman standing at home office.Meet Cheryl, Sue’s supervisor. Cheryl leads a large team that is responsible for the company’s top-selling product. Because of the nature of manufacturing and the number of skilled workers on her team, Cheryl wants to limit turnover with her team. Turnover concerns Cheryl as her team engages in a collective learning process to improve their products, processes, and knowledge together over time. Cheryl wants to leverage what her team members are learning to make their product better so that her organization can improve its efficiency and efficacy. Last year, the company modified one of the assembly line processes based on feedback from her team. Cheryl also meets with a member of human resources, who advises Cheryl to coach Sue towards additional training. Cheryl’s collective team is an example of organizational learning.

“When the learner is informed why the training is important to them and how it could improve their work, they are more likely to engage with the content emotionally” (Yupangco, 2020, para. 16). A recent  article (new tab)  suggested that a top focus area for employers is their training and development of employees to close gaps in skills (Yupangco, 2020). In addition to running a business, organizations are wrestling with questions such as:

· Why do adults want to learn?

· What connections need to be made for adult learners to see the value in training and development?

· What sets adult learners apart from younger learners?

· Do we as leaders need to change our approaches based on the needs of adult learners?

This week, we will engage with the topic of adult learning, based on Knowles’s six principles of adult learners. O’Neill (2020) wrote a short popular  article (new tab)  giving an overview of Knowles’ work on andragogy, or the theory of adult learning.

To further our discussion, we will consider the differences between individual learning and organizational learning as well as what it means to be a learning organization. Individual learning and organizational learning are different, yet related, concepts. As you go through this week, consider Sue and Cheryl, what needs they might have in their roles, and how the concepts of adult learning, individual learning, and organizational learning might apply to their situation.

Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to:

· Identify the characteristics of adult learners.

· Describe the differences between individual learning and organizational learning.

Background Information

To prepare for this week’s discussion, access the tabs below for reading and YOOUTUBE video resources. 

Adult Learning TheoryOrganizational Learning StrategiesAdult Indiviual Learning Styles

YOUTUBE:

Adult Learning Theory | Knowles’ 6 Assumptions of Adult Learners

Organizational Learning Strategies

How to Implement Adult Learning Theo

read  Maximizing Learning to Increase Performance

Instructions

1. Review the rubric to make sure you understand the criteria for earning your grade.

2. Review the information in the Getting Started and Background Information sections.

3. Based upon your reading and review, use the following thought prompts to engage your thinking. Then post a 250–300-word response that integrates the key ideas and stimulates good group conversation and learning (i.e., think about you and your classmates as adult learners).

a. Which of Knowles’s eight characteristics of adult learners apply to the adults within your organization? Which of the characteristics most apply to you?

b. Consider your own learning preferences and reasons for learning.  What motivates you? What emotional, cognitive, or behavioral situations help you to feel more engaged?

c. What are the differences between individual learning and organizational learning? 

d. What is organizational learning? How does it differ from the learning organization?

What is involved in collecting requirements for this project?

490 wk3 DQ1. 100-150 WORDS

Your IT team is tasked to review the requirements to design a security operations center for your company. What is involved in collecting requirements for this project? Why is it often difficult to do?

REPLIES 75-100 WORDS

What existing debt ratio (between 0% and 100%) would make you nervous when considering loaning a small business even more money?

As a user of accounting information, being able to compare financial information across time (for the same company) and across companies (at the same point in time) makes comparisons even more valuable. Common and easily understood ratios facilitate these comparisons.

A company’s ability to repay a short-term loan is often a function of the company’s liquidity. Liquidity is commonly measured by dividing a company’s current assets by its current liabilities—this is called the current ratio. If a company already has a lot of debt, it might not be able to repay money it borrows. Leverage is a term used to measure how much debt a company already has and is commonly measured by dividing total liabilities by total assets. This is called a company’s debt ratio.

You are a bank loan officer considering the loan application of a small business in your area. The small business is experiencing a seasonal cash crunch and has come to your bank for a short-term loan. You must assess the company’s ability to repay the loan.

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

  • What questions would you want answered in considering the credit worthiness of this small business?
  • Why would a high current ratio indicate that the company is a good candidate for being able to repay a short-term loan?
  • Why would a low debt ratio indicate that the company is a good candidate for being able to repay a loan?
  • What existing debt ratio (between 0% and 100%) would make you nervous when considering loaning a small business even more money?
Research and identify three tracks an IT Professional can take and describe the credentials (i.e., degrees, certifications, experience) required to pursue these paths.

430 WK4 DQ1. 100-150 WORDS
IT and security careers have many varied tracks. Research and identify three tracks an IT Professional can take and describe the credentials (i.e., degrees, certifications, experience) required to pursue these paths. Which path best aligns with your current passions and why?
REPLIES 75-100 WORDS

Explain how globalization contributes to or affects these ethical dilemmas.

Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the following Week 1 and Week 2 required resources that focus on globalization, ethics, and moral reasoning. This will assist you in examining your own development of ethical and moral responsibilities as they relate to your paper and its topic.

Read these articles from Week 1:

Read these articles from Week 2:

Reflect: The change of our world from a local economy to a national economy to a global, international economy means that increasingly diverse populations will have to work together to achieve common goals. However, as the economy becomes increasingly global, local economies and people may suffer economic disadvantage or may find themselves marginalized from the rest of the world. Globalization creates ethical dilemmas for which we will need to find solutions.

Write: For this discussion, address the following prompts:

  • Explain the implications of globalization.
  • Identify at least two ethical issues that go along with the global societal topic you have chosen – international drug trafficking 
  • Explain how globalization contributes to or affects these ethical dilemmas.
  • Propose solutions to these ethical dilemmas that are feasible financially, socially, and culturally.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length, 

Describe the processes used for selecting the research that would be included in the review.

Summary – This assessment takes the form of:
A protocol for a systematic review, written for a question related to an environment and human health issue.
The protocol will be up to 2000 words long, about an original topic relevant to your current interests, or for a systematic review
that you would like to do in the future.
This task is focused on developing a protocol. It focuses on your ability to identify a researchable question, justify the choice of
topic and apply a structured approach to how you would undertake a systematic review to answer this question.
You may chose to focus on a question relevant to a systematic review of quantitative or of qualitative research.
Preparation – In order to be able to complete this concise piece of work, you will need to review module material about
evidence, searching and systematic reviews.
You will need to run some test searches to see if your proposed method works.
You may also want to do some scoping searches to see what kind of research has been done on the topic before you finalise
what your question and your methods should be.
You can see some examples of review protocols available at the link below (NOTE however, that the structure of these
protocols is different to that suggested for this assignment – use the marking schedule below to help structure your report):
http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/
There are also protocols for systematic reviews published in some journals, for example, Environmental Evidence and
Systematic Reviews:
https://environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/
https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/
There is also PRISMA guidance about what should be included in a protocol for a systematic review here:
http://www.prisma-statement.org/documents/PRISMA-P-checklist.pdf
Submission date: See ELE.
GUIDANCE FOR THE ASSIGNMENT
The task:
 Write a background section about your chosen topic and why it is important. Outline the focused topic that you would
address in a systematic review.
 Develop a structured research question, and inclusion criteria, using an appropriate format.
 Develop a preliminary search strategy based on the research question showing how the terms would be linked together.
Say where you would search for relevant information.
 Describe the processes used for selecting the research that would be included in the review.
 Say what data would be extracted for the review and how the included research would be critically appraised.
 Describe how you think you would synthesise the findings of included research.
Submission and marking
This summative assignment comprises 75% of the overall summative assessment of the HPDM028 module. Your assignment
should be submitted electronically as a single document via BART in advance of the deadline shown on ELE.

Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal, academic, and professional growth.

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the Week 2 required resources that focus on ethics and morals. This will assist you in examining your own development of ethical and moral responsibilities.

Read the articles:

Reflect: Take a deeper look at your own life and determine which experiences have inspired ethical and moral reasoning. Were there any huge influences in this process?

Write: For this discussion you will address the following prompts:

  • Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal, academic, and professional growth.
  • Provide at least one ethical dilemma you have encountered, and describe how the issue was resolved.
  • Describe how your general education courses have influenced your ethical values.

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length,

Develop an informational report that provides cultural information necessary for successful job performance in a foreign country.

The company you work for recently acquired several international locations. You were informed that multiple positions will be moving overseas over the course of the next few years. Your manager has asked you to provide a comprehensive cultural information report to help employees make the transition to overseas employment.

Instructions

Select a country where a specific job will be stationed. You may select from the United Nations’ list of developed economies (Table A, page 169) in World Economic Situation and Prospects [PDF]. ***(PDF ATTACHED)***

  • If you wish to select a country other than those listed in the UN document, you must request permission from your instructor.
  • Make sure the county of choice is logical for the company you are using.

Develop a six page cultural information report that will help an employee better understand how to make the transition overseas. Include the following:

  1. Prepare an executive summary that explains the organizational strategy for expanding company operations to a particular country.
    • What is the company strategy for working in this country?
    • What are the expectations of leadership (ROI)?
  2. Prepare an overview of the critical information an American would need to know to live and work in the selected country.
    • Languages spoken.
    • Currency, economy, political climate.
    • Housing, cost of living, transportation.
    • Health care.
    • Recreation.
  3. Develop a list of advice on successfully assimilating into the selected country and culture.
    • Local customs, values, and traditions.
  4. Determine the type of immigration laws or visa requirements that need to be met to work in the selected country.
  5. Discuss three ways company leadership can provide human and material resources to support employees in foreign locations.
    • What will help these employees succeed before, during, and after the transition period?

For help with research and writing, access the library or review library guides.Note: The numbered assignment requirements outlined above correspond to the grading criteria in the assignment scoring guide, so be sure to address each point. The bulleted content below the numbered criteria is there to clarify, support, and contextualize the assignment instructions.

Format

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

  • Develop an informational report that provides cultural information necessary for successful job performance in a foreign country.
Explain what political statement the artist was making, and whether or not it is still applicable in the 21st century (today).

Choose ten (out of the fifteen) of the following questions and answer each in approximately 100 words each. Each response is worth 10 points. Use your own words. If you study with another student, you must each choose different examples and show evidence of your own thoughts. You may reference the class readings and your class notes without citation. If you use another source, you must cite the source. 

Complete responses on a Word document and upload that document to this tab. 

Please number your responses #1-10 and include the title of each question.

The biggest problem with student submission of this final has been plagiarism. Please be sure everything is in your own words or very brief cited quotes.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Connect personal experience to the humanities
  • Interpret a work of art, literature, philosophy, or religion.
  • Analyze multicultural perspectives.

Choose Ten of the Following:

Ancient Age Sculpture

Compare the Venus of Willendorf to a 21st century image of the body in popular art, culture, or the media.  Include a photo or a link to the modern image you chose. Explain in detail how each depiction of the body expresses the values of each of the cultures (stone age and contemporary age); in other words, what does the depiction of the human form reveal about the values of each culture?

Contrapposto

View a Classical Greek sculpture in the contrapposto pose, such as this one,   

and explain how the sculpture is example of the rise of humanism that was not present in the earlier Greek sculptures.

Monotheistic Religions 

Explain how Abraham is a founding figure in each of the three Abrahamic religions. Name the religions and tell why Abraham is significant in each.

The Medieval Church 

The medieval Church influenced the arts in many ways. Give a specific example of how the Church influenced each of these five art modes(architecture, drama, literature, music, visual arts) in the medieval period, and place them in order of significance (#1 should be the art mode that was most influenced by the Church). Support your rationale for the ordering. 

Medieval vs. Renaissance Art 

Choose a work of medieval art (500-1400) and a work of Renaissance art (1400-1600) with a similar theme or subject. Give specific examples of the elements of Medieval and Renaissance techniques/elements in each and explain how the Renaissance piece is an example of the pictorial revolution.

The Influence of Martin Luther 

View the painting Allegorical Portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (The Ambassadors) by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533.

 (Links to an external site.)How is the influence of Martin Luther shown in this painting? Give specific examples.

Non-Western Humanities

Explain the meaning of the term “non-Western” and explain why it is important to study works of art from cultures outside of the Western world. Include the topic you chose for CJ 3 as an example of what you have learned from your brief study of non-Western art.

Baroque Music 

Listen to Vivaldi’s “Spring” from The Four Seasons (1st movement).

Describe how the piece of music shows characteristics of the Baroque time period. Give specific examples of Baroque characteristics and how this piece demonstrates them.

Are You Enlightened? 

Explain how the Locke and Rousseau’s idea of the social contract is evident today. Use a specific modern example and explain how the example shows the relationship between individual freedom and the role of the government.

Matching  Romantic Art and Music

Listen to Chopin’s Revolutionary.

Choose an example of Romantic art that best fits the theme of this piece. Explain why the art you chose fits with the theme of the music, including specific examples of how the music and the art contain elements of Romanticism.

Impressionist Inspiration

Find your favorite Impressionist painting (include title, artist, and year it was painted) and compare it to a work of art from the early 19th century. Explain how the impressionist painting broke from the traditional ideas of painting from the previous era.

What is Art? 

View the short video, Objects (the video is located in the Finals Week Module), and answer the following question.

Discuss whether or not each of the works of art described in the videos is art, or not, and explain why.

Identity in Modern Art

Choose a work of art from the 20th century that shows the artist’s “struggle for identity.” Include the title, artist, and year created, and explain how the artwork shows the artist’s struggle to express identity. (Think of identity in terms of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc.)

Political Modern Art

Find a work of political art from the 20th century (1900-1999). Explain what political statement the artist was making, and whether or not it is still applicable in the 21st century (today).

Picasso: Rose and Blue

View the video below on the causes of Picasso’s Rose and Blue Periods. 

Embed an example of each (one painting from each period) and explain why each is indicative of that particular period. https://youtu.be/tR5BqBuz9kQ

Explain the process of immunosuppression and the effect it has on body systems.

Scenario

 A 49-year-old patient with rheumatoid arthritis comes into the clinic with a chief complaint of a fever. Patient’s current medications include atorvastatin 40 mg at night, methotrexate 10 mg po every Friday morning and prednisone 5 mg po qam. He states that he has had a fever up to 101 degrees F for about a week and admits to chills and sweats. He says he has had more fatigue than usual and reports some chest pain associated with coughing. He admits to having occasional episodes of hemoptysis. He works as a grain inspector at a large farm cooperative. After extensive work-up, the patient was diagnosed with Invasive aspergillosis.

Develop a 1- to 2-page case study analysis in which you:

  • Explain why you think the patient presented the symptoms described.
  • Identify the genes that may be associated with the development of the disease.
  • Explain the process of immunosuppression and the effect it has on body systems.

APA Format

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