Managing Takeover: LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THE CULTURAL DIMENSION

Abstract

Addresses the issue of managerial learning disabilities in relation to a takeover situation. The analysis derives from involvement at the “sharp end” and being affected by bad management thinking. It shows that unless a wider and deeper perspective is taken by management in making decisions the side‐effects are enormously negative. To overcome the learning disabilities reported, a new approach to organizational learning is required which constitutes the fifth principle or systems thinking. Only when managers break out of limited thinking and move towards generative learning are fundamental rather than symptomatic solutions to business problems possible.

Citation

McKenna, S.D. and Rogers, E. (1993), "Managing Takeover: LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THE CULTURAL DIMENSION", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683949310032730