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Organisational Learning, Knowledge Management and Sustainability

The purpose of this guide is to help you locate and use those library resources most relevant to your research. The library spends much of its time and money on collecting, organizing, and making available to you high-quality resources. Please make use of these resources when you are doing your research, assignment, and projects.

Organisational Learning

"This is the learning process used in an organisation. It deals with the question of how individuals in the organisation learn" (Tsang, 1997)

Learning Organisations

This is where learning takes place that moves an organisation to a desired state; one "where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire ... and where people are continually learning how to learn together.

Today and in the future, the organizations that will truly excel will be the ones that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization. Learning organizations are fundamentally different from traditional authoritarian controlling organizations." - Senge

Knowledge Management

This is the process for creating, managing an distributing the knowledge used in organisational learning.

Library Catalogue

The Library Catalogue is a good starting point. When searching for materials on a particular topic, use KEYWORD BOOLEAN searching. Use basic Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT). Remember to use alternative terms, related terms, synonyms and truncation to broaden your search.

The catalogue lists only journal titles, not article titles. For article titles you need to use the databases on Library Link (Management) or MyWeb.

If you are working off campus, remember to LOGIN on the first page of the catalogue, so that you can access online journals through links on the catalogue.

Items on the same subject will be in the same call number range and this is useful if you want to browse the shelves for information on a particular topic.

Search terms

It is very important to find your search terms or key words and create a search strategy to do an effective search.

Some examples are:

Business for social responsibility, Cognitive mapping, Collaborative technologies and organisational learning, Knowledge management, Learning organisations, Mental models, Organisational change, Organisational learning, Personal mastery, Shared vision, Spirituality in workplace, Sustainable development, Sustainability, Systems thinking, Team learning, Teams in the workplace, Triple bottom line, Workplace innovation, Workplace learning.

Quick Reference

(Near the Information Desk at Level 2)

This area has Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Handbooks etc. and good for finding alternative terms for broadening your research. The call number for learning organisations, organisational learning, knowledge management, and sustainability is HD, HF and for Management resources from HA to HJ.

Journals

Journals are available in Level 1 (Management Journals are not for circulation). Please search in the Library Catalogue using Journal title or Keywords.

Requesting Interloans

1. Online: On the Library Link page / MyWeb go to INTERLOAN FORMS TO REQUEST, select the one you require, fill in and submit.

2. Paper forms: These are located on the cabinet near the Level 2 Information Desk. Fill in details and deposit in the shelf marked COMPLETED INTERLOAN FORMS.

Databases (Full Text)

ACM Digital Library

APAFT

EBSCO Mega File Premier

Elsevier Science Direct

Emerald

ProQuest

Wiley Interscience

Databases (Index only)

IngentaConnect (some Full-Text)

ISI Web of Science (Current contents, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index since 1993).

New Zealand databases

Index New Zealand
(New Zealand periodicals and newspapers - only index is available)

Newztext Plus (Incorporates Newztext Daily Newspapers, Newztext Magazines, Newzindex and Newswires databases). Can be cross-searched or searched individually. All databases full-text except for indexes and abstracts.

Some basic rules for searching the library catalogue and databases are:

Type all search terms in lower case letters
Truncate and use alternative terms to broaden your search - sustainab?
Add more essential search terms to narrow your search
Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) -learning AND action OR modelling
When searching for a phrase, use speech marks - "learning organisations" AND "case stud?"
Use brackets to group terms - (Complexity and creativity) AND organisations

Please use the Help Menu to find more tips for using the Library Catalogue.

Select from the Library Home page/ MyWeb - Library Link - Management databases - select the database you want to search - enter - type the text you want to search for in the text box/ field - choose (limit) the date range etc. - search.

Please visit the Waikato Management School for information on the courses offered by the Department of Management Systems.