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To have a better understanding of OL, it is critical to explore how an organization maybe transitioned into an LO, how its OL process is initiated, driven, enabled, facilitated, and measured. This chapter introduces OL as a continuous process called DELO (Driving, Enabling, Learning, Outcome). Each of the core components along the DELO process is discussed in details in this chapter.
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Law, K.M.Y., Chuah, K.B. (2020). Organizational Learning Process as DELO. In: Law, K., Chuah, K. (eds) Project Action Learning (PAL) Guidebook: Practical Learning in Organizations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23997-8_4
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