SARA LEE CORPORATION

Sara Lee Corporation

Sara Lee Corporation

Improvement the Sara Lee Corporation's Learning and Growth

The learning's of Sara Lee Corporations a metaphor with its roots in the vision of and the search for a strategy to promote individual self-development within a continuously self-transforming organization. Many theories have impacted on the way how organizations and individuals learn. Starkey, Tempest and McKinley describe the process of learning organization as a metaphor, with its' roots in the vision and to search strategies which promote individual self-development within a continuous self-transforming organization' (Starkey, K., 2004).

Objectives and its measurement regarding metric, target and initiative)

Objective 1

One Objective that I have found useful and rather easily simple to relate to an Sara Lee Corporation context is with the use of Chris Argyris and Donald Schon's Objective of 'Single and Double-learning (Starkey; Tempest and McKinlay 2004). In other words, when a problem occurs, an individual or group will seek to find a strategy to correct the problem. Another response is to question to different problems themselves, and then to subject them to critical analysis.

Although it is suggested that organisations should adapt to double-loop learning in order to correct their errors, there are still a large amount of organisations which only adapt to single-loop learning as their correcting method. For example, my experience within a sales company (Pro-Sales/Cobra Corporation), most employees's struggled to sell their goods because they only experimented with a small amount of selling techniques, and regularly used the techniques which created successful sales for themselves as an individual. I then analysed the different personalities of the people and set them out into separate groups, and furthermore experimented which selling techniques suited them most.

Objective 2

The second Objective I have found valuable towards learning organisations, is the Classical Conditioning Objective which was implemented by the famous Russian ...