Learning Organization

Learning organizations are those organizations that persistently encourage and motivate to their employees for learning, acquiring, innovating, developing, and experimenting new ideas, technology, methodology and business processes.

Learning enterprises are places “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 how to learn together” Senge( 1990).

Learning organizations are ‘knowledge creating companies’. They are places where “inventing new knowledge is not a specialized activity, it is a way of behaving, indeed a way of being, in which every one is a knowledge worker”. Nonaka (1991).

Elements of a Learning Organization:

Integration of new technology into the system.

To develop existing technologies and methods.

Mutual sharing and learning.

Systematic problem solving.

Flexible to market and environmental forces.

Six steps to make an organization a learning organization:

Step 1. Have dynamic leaders at key designations, who can create a circle with peers, seniors and subordinates, who can motivate and create a culture of learning.