Critically generated knowledge - the triple loop learning result |
UDC: 005.94:005.22 DOI: 10.7595/management.fon.2011.0002
In contemporary circumstances, one of the key features of managing the organizations is the increasing complexity and heterogeneity of problems which are relevant for the organizations’ survival and development. At the same time, there is an increasing diversity and variety of theories, methodologies, methods, techniques, and models that are available for dealing with the management problem situations. Diversity Management, as acomplementarist meta-theoretical development within critical systems thinking, seeks to provide an appropriate base of guidelines for making theoretically and methodologically informed and responsible choices. Triple Loop Learning, as a methodological development of Diversity Management, is focused on simultaneous and creative management of three main organizational issues: design, debate, and power and legitimacy. Relevant insights into the management problem situation under consideration, in which one wants to intervene, can be critically generated through the triple loop learning process. An appropriate improvement in the problem situation can be achieved through the theoretically and methodologically underpinned management of design, debate, and power-knowledge dynamics, i.e. through the implementation of the critically generated knowledge. Keywords: management problem situations in organizations, critical systems thinking, Diversity anagment, Triple Loop Learning, knowledge for meaningful and responsible choices
Slavica P. Petrović University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Economics
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