The relationship between team and organisational learning

Abstract

Current government policy requires that all acute Trusts will have an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) by 2005 but there is no additional funding for such expensive technology. Instead funding must be found by reviewing internal policies and procedures. Such extensive organisational process review is an opportunity to bring about organisational learning but there is no government guidance on how to bring this about and a dichotomy exists within organisational learning theory. This paper investigates if teams are the bridge between divergent schools of thought on organisational learning, and considers if they are the mechanism to bring about both organisational learning and the delivery of a successful EPR implementation, the stated aim of government policy.