Learning Organization

The ‘Learning Organisation’ is a concept first described by Peter Senge as an organisation where people continuously learn and enhance their capabilities to create. It consists of five main disciplines: team learning, shared vision, mental models, personal mastery and systems thinking. These disciplines are dynamic and interact with each other. System thinking is the cornerstone of a true learning organisation and is described as the discipline used to implement the disciplines. In a learning organisation, health care education aims to educate its members with up to date knowledge to produce competent and safe personnel, who can promote quality in health care services. In addition, there are some educational concepts and theoretical models, which are of relevance to the learning organisation, and can provide a framework for managerial decisions. The stages required to achieve the principles of a learning organisation will be described in detail. Moreover, in a proper culture which supports the learning organisation, members continuously learn to improve the environment and never remain passive recipients.

It is not bad to commit mistakes but the important part is considering the mistakes as an experience of lifetime and learning from the same. The definition of learning organization is pretty similar to this. The pillars on which the structure of a learning organization is built are Team learning, Shared vision, mental models, personal mastery and system thinking. These factors are vibrant and interrelated with each other with sheer coordination. System thinking can be considered as the most significant material of a true learning organization. System thinking is always considered as a set of habits or practices within a framework that is based on the belief that the component parts of a system can best be understood in the context of relationships with each other. For an example, in a learning organization of health care services, its members are always kept