PAL Driven Organizational Learning: Theory and Practices

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. From Individual Organizational Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Organization and Individuals

      • Kong Bieng Chuah, Kris M. Y. Law

      Pages 3-6

   3. Organizational Learning as a Continuous Process, DELO

      • Kris M. Y. Law, Kong Bieng Chuah

      Pages 7-29

3. The PAL Driven OL Framework

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. The PAL Framework

      • Kris M. Y. Law, Kong Bieng Chuah

      Pages 33-42

   3. The Four Pillars

      • Kris M. Y. Law, Kong Bieng Chuah

      Pages 43-48

4. From Theory to Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Implementation of PAL in a Learning Organization

      • Y. C. Chau, K. F. Kwong, Chris R. Cao, Kong Bieng Chauh, Kris M. Y. Law

      Pages 51-92

   3. PAL as the OL Approach, Not a Myth

      • Kris M. Y. Law, Kong Bieng Chuah

      Pages 93-98

5. Back Matter

   Pages 99-112

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Presenting an innovative concept and approach for organization management, this book serves to document an organization’s journey towards the ultimate goal of learning organization. This book also shares the experience on how a OL framework built on established learning theories, could be used effectively, overcoming many of the barriers in a real industrial setting. Utilizing a ready-to-use tool called Project Action Learning (PAL) to analyze real life case studies, the authors introduce a framework that allows teams of people to work and learn over the course of business projects. Equal emphasis is placed on the achievement of pre-set project outcomes and the learning objectives of the participants. In addition, a long term organizational learning strategy is put forward and the necessary supporting infrastructure, in the form of four ‘PAL Pillars’, is described. The concepts and development of the PAL driven Organizational Learning model are inspired by and grounded in, Western and Eastern business philosophies and case studies which offer important insights into the management of organizations who are keen to develop sustainable business practices.

• Human Capital Development
• Learning organization
• Organizational Learning
• Project-Action Learning
• Team Performance
• Engineering Economics

• Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

  Kris M. Y. Law

• Department of Systems Engineering and En, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR

  Kong Bieng Chuah

The authors have years of practical experience from organization development consulting and research.

The authors have published studies internationally and in several academic publications. This multidisciplinary collaboration represents a combination of knowledge from the West and the East. Furthermore, it presents cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge that includes engineering and humanistic perspectives. 

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