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Leadership as a Process to Create Organizational Culture and Group Learning


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1 University of Canberra, ACT, Australia
2 University of Calabria, Italy
     

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Effective leadership co-creates a learning culture through the application of learning and development, thus transforming the tacit and covert cultures into the explicit. The essence of learning cultures can be understood as a range of complex relationships such as person-toperson relationships. For learning cultures to be productive within organizations, the learning (work) needs to be captured, realized, transformed and re-worked. This requires relationships within an organization that support all types of learning across the organization. Learning is a relational concept and a social construct, intrinsically bound to the environments and by its nature involves interaction among individuals or between an individual and the surroundings. Learning relationships need to be nurtured among organizational members where senior staff can act as coaches and mentors to more junior staff. Mentoring and leveraging leadership capability are ideal points of action for transforming the tacit to the explicit. Effective leadership co-creates organizational cultures and effects group learning through the power of established (formal and inferred) protocols that shape relationships.

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Organizational Culture, Learning Culture, Leadership Learning and Performance.
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Authors

Francesco Sofo
University of Canberra, ACT, Australia
Salvatore Ammirato
University of Calabria, Italy
Michelle Sofo
University of Canberra, ACT, Australia

Abstract


Effective leadership co-creates a learning culture through the application of learning and development, thus transforming the tacit and covert cultures into the explicit. The essence of learning cultures can be understood as a range of complex relationships such as person-toperson relationships. For learning cultures to be productive within organizations, the learning (work) needs to be captured, realized, transformed and re-worked. This requires relationships within an organization that support all types of learning across the organization. Learning is a relational concept and a social construct, intrinsically bound to the environments and by its nature involves interaction among individuals or between an individual and the surroundings. Learning relationships need to be nurtured among organizational members where senior staff can act as coaches and mentors to more junior staff. Mentoring and leveraging leadership capability are ideal points of action for transforming the tacit to the explicit. Effective leadership co-creates organizational cultures and effects group learning through the power of established (formal and inferred) protocols that shape relationships.

Keywords


Organizational Culture, Learning Culture, Leadership Learning and Performance.

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