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Double-loop learning

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, double-loop learning means: Learning that questions and may change the assumptions, goals or rules guiding action, not only the action itself.

In Turkish: çift döngülü öğrenme

How it is used

Use when recurring problems prompt reconsideration of the framework used to define success.

Example sentences

  1. Double-loop learning led us to question why every purchase needed three approvals.

    The rule generating delays becomes the object of inquiry.

  2. The review produced double-loop learning when managers changed what the service target measured.

    The definition of desired performance changes rather than just the effort to meet it.

Common collocations

  • encourage double-loop learning
  • double-loop learning process
  • change managementThe planned way an organisation prepares, supports and guides people through a major change, such as a new system or a merger, so that the change is accepted and lasts.
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done a piece of work or behaved, given so that they can keep doing what works and improve what does not.

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