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ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION SCHEME. Dr FLEVY LASRADO 31 OCT 2013. Connecting Organizational Learning to Employee Suggestion Scheme (Organizational Excellence). Dimensions of Organizational Learning. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.
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ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION SCHEME Dr FLEVY LASRADO 31 OCT 2013
Connecting Organizational Learning to Employee Suggestion Scheme (Organizational Excellence) OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Dimensions of Organizational Learning OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Is there a conducive organizational culture or shared mindset to ensure that the learning takes place : Freedom; Learning from mistakes etc OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
LEADERSHIP Do we have high quality leaders in our organization? These leaders know how to get the right results the right way. OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
HR PRACTICES : MOTIVATION OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
HR PRACTICES: REWARDS OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
To understand, Are Organizational Learning and Organizational Excellence connected? TOPIC OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Past 4 years on ESS in UAE organizations • Outcome of this research – ESS Sustainability Excellence Model Sharing Research OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
What is an Employee Suggestion Scheme and Why do we need it? • Who uses it? Background OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Used to elicit employee creative Ideas • Globally and locally Employee Suggestion Scheme OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
LEARNING AND INNOVATION How well do we innovate and make innovation a key pillar in our firm? OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Do we need to go after innovation? • Do we really believe in Innovation OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
The world around us is changing OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
We live in a flat world My parents used to say “clean your plates” because there are children in China who are starving. Now we should say “do your homework” because children in China are starving for your jobs. Friedman, T. (2005). The World is Flat. NYC: Picador OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Key questions that pose today are: • Are we good at generating new ideas with impact and generalizing those ideas across boundaries? • How well do we innovate in product, strategy, channel, service, and administration • Can we move quickly to make important things happen fast? The challenge OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
ESS is tool that can be used to capture the employee creative Ideas! OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
ESS does not necessarily be successful if it is not nurtured Sustainability of the ESS is Important! OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
“Achievement of stakeholder’s stated goals involving competence management, profitability, employee productivity and continuous process improvement now and in the future” Sustainability of suggestion scheme OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
A Sustainability Excellence Model : Factors The Research Outcome OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Freedom Rewards Organizational Design Leadership Employee Participation Organizational Culture Awareness The Factors Team work Feedback OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
It is conceptualized as having three different stages: Sustainability is not a binary state of Yes or No OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Leadership OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Organizational Learning and ESS CAUSE AND EFFECT : LEARNING IS AN INTENDED OUTCOME (Borrow, 1993) OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
ESS and OL are Embedded OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Focus on the factors that foster ESS which in turn leads towards being a leaning organization OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
ESS contributes as a vehicle supporting OL OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Developing the innovative capability • Inspiring story by David Garvin! To OL “Solutions no longer will /have to come from top”! X OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Essentially there is no one up there ! • Managers traditional functions no longer remain! • Need to engage in creating, sharing and transferring knowledge for a better tomorrow! • Future consequence – ESS/OL -> Organizational Performance! Conclusions OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
Organizations and Organizing in a “flat” world: The flattening of the world is about the creation of a global platform for multiple forms of sharing work, knowledge. Friedman, T. (2005). The World is Flat. NYC: Picador; OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado
THANK YOU! OLC MENA 2013| Dr Lasrado