CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

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through meetings, memos, letters and reports. These are either internal or external to the
organization. Workshops, seminars and conferences are also sources for flow of
information. Notice boards, feedback systems and suggestion systems also help in
transmission of information from one point to another within the organization. Explaining
the flow of information to the team members through exposure and its impact on the
whole team Steward says:


Informally people are encouraged to go out and find out, contacting col-
leagues in other parts of the company or outside the organization. In this
way they learn not only that they can cross organizational boundaries but
that they should do so, bringing back what they have learnt to the team
and helping the other team members to understand and make use of the
information. Electronic communication, particularly E-mail and
groupware can underpin rapid exchanges of ideas at a distance. Requests
for information, or best practice tips, are sent through corporate worldwide
networks and the Internet. (p. 110)

Informally information is transmitted when people interact with each other, hold
discussion and arguments, the staff is encouraged is go out and bring back information to
the organization. During the processes the people learn and bring that knowledge with
then and make use of it while at work. Acquiring information and using it, not only
facilitate that staff work but also improve the quality of their output. The electronic
system has made it easier for the staff to access their desired information and make use of
it in time.


2.6.2.2. Information management and HR............

There is lot of data available every where in the organization, but simply recording the
data and strong then does not help in achieving he purposes for which the data is
collected. These pieces of data a linked and then analyzed transforming then into
information. Similar is the case with the data related to HR. There is lot of data available
regarding HR, such as number of trainings conducted, number of personnel recruited,

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