Learning Organization
LEARNING ORGANIZATION
According to Peter Senge (1990: 3) Learning organization are:
“…organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together”.
Senge argues that organizations should have the sort of culture which allows them to shape there own future to a far greater degree as been the case in the past. Organization must be constantly improving their performance and in order to do this both management and employees must be actively seeking ways in which they can improve performance.
Pedler et al (1998). defines a learning organization as one that “facilitates learning of all its members and continuously transforms itself”.
ORGANIZATION CULTURE
Edgar Schein defines, “Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization 's view of its self and its environment.”
Organizational culture “is frequently described as a set of shared meanings that influence or determine behavior” (University of Sunderland Study Manual, HRM 325, pg. 446).
We shall now discuss the value to organizations in creating a learning organizational culture.
One of the most influential strategic models of a learning organization is the blueprint provided by Pedlar et al. (1991). Demonstrated in figure 6.3, pg. 319, University of Sunderland Study Manual, HRM 325.
This model is reproduced in figure 1 below.
CONCLUSION
The knowledge and service mode of learning empowers an organization to improve their effectiveness systematically by making better products and providing better services. Learning is one of the essential keys to productivity in knowledge work. If we are not continuously and systematically learning, others are,
According to Peter Senge (1990: 3) Learning organization are:
“…organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together”.
Senge argues that organizations should have the sort of culture which allows them to shape there own future to a far greater degree as been the case in the past. Organization must be constantly improving their performance and in order to do this both management and employees must be actively seeking ways in which they can improve performance.
Pedler et al (1998). defines a learning organization as one that “facilitates learning of all its members and continuously transforms itself”.
ORGANIZATION CULTURE
Edgar Schein defines, “Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization 's view of its self and its environment.”
Organizational culture “is frequently described as a set of shared meanings that influence or determine behavior” (University of Sunderland Study Manual, HRM 325, pg. 446).
We shall now discuss the value to organizations in creating a learning organizational culture.
One of the most influential strategic models of a learning organization is the blueprint provided by Pedlar et al. (1991). Demonstrated in figure 6.3, pg. 319, University of Sunderland Study Manual, HRM 325.
This model is reproduced in figure 1 below.
CONCLUSION
The knowledge and service mode of learning empowers an organization to improve their effectiveness systematically by making better products and providing better services. Learning is one of the essential keys to productivity in knowledge work. If we are not continuously and systematically learning, others are,