Society for Organisational Learning in the UK

Didier Clement and Roy Woodhead have held 2 study groups on 11th January and 27th February 2007.  Roy led a discussion that explored past approaches to decision making with a view to forming a new theory based around organisational learning and Didier's discussions concentrated on decision making and the role of emotion.

At the last session Roy's presentation was very productive where a rational approach to organisational learning was experimented with a positive spirit.  Roy's PowerPoint presentation is attached below.  Though Roy had anticipated a negative reaction to the suggestion of making group beliefs explicity and testable in a Bayesian approach, he found such worries less of an issue in practice.  Although not everyone was committed to the approach, Roy was encouraged by the feedback in the room and will continue trying to make proven logical reasoning systems more accessible and less daunting to people way of logic and mathematics.  Roy was also encouraged by the discussions around this approach which removed the prsumption of certainty and values such as methods in the context of organisational learning and decision-making.  In short, Roy feels he is heading in a productive direction.