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I just have to say it's bloody annoying to have to debunk Hegel for a poxy reading review of an article on organisational learning I've just had to do. I was so tempted to write "appeals to irrelevant authorities are stupid", but I'll water that down a bit.
In short, organisations and groups can't "learn" because they're not living entities, duh. And no, the author is not going to bother discussing group knowledge and how it is added to and retrieved. Also, individuals apparently cannot learn in isolation, since "learning is the activity of interdependent people and can only be understood in terms of self-organising communicative interaction and power relating in which identities are potentially transformed." And no, that statement isn't qualified any further. Well, sticking your hand on the stove when you're entirely alone isn't going to do anything for you then, is it?
In short, organisations and groups can't "learn" because they're not living entities, duh. And no, the author is not going to bother discussing group knowledge and how it is added to and retrieved. Also, individuals apparently cannot learn in isolation, since "learning is the activity of interdependent people and can only be understood in terms of self-organising communicative interaction and power relating in which identities are potentially transformed." And no, that statement isn't qualified any further. Well, sticking your hand on the stove when you're entirely alone isn't going to do anything for you then, is it?