LEARNING ORGANIZATION
A learning organization is a skilled organization at generating, obtaining, transferring knowledge, and adapting its behavior to suit new insight and knowledge. The learning organizations specialize in five major activities; learning from experience, learning lessons from history, experimentation with new approaches, effectively and quickly sharing knowledge in the entire organization, systematic problem solving, and learning from others’ best experiences and adapting to their best practices. To practice each of the above, it takes a distinctive mindset, behavior pattern, and tool kit. To some extent, several companies exercise this, but unfortunately, only a few of them are successful since they depend on chance and remote examples (Amin & Mohamad, 2017). For companies to improve their learning more effectively, they should generate processes and systems that integrate and support these activities in their regular operations.
Learning organizations takes time to build, and several successful are as a result of commitment, positive cultivated attitude, and organized management of processes that are slow and steady accrued. However, some changes are instant, and any organization is aspiring to become a learning organization should foster some steps (Desai, 2009). The first step is creating a conducive learning environment that involves giving time for reflection and analysis, assess work in progress, dissect customers, and invent new products since rush makes learning difficult.
Opening up boundaries and triggering the exchange of ideas is another step to fostering learning. Barriers hinder the smooth flow of ideas from individuals and groups since it keeps them isolated. Opening up boundaries through meetings and conferences gives the company the ability to link up with ideas from customers and suppliers, which helps to counter competition perspectives. Upon the establishment of stable and open environments, then learning forums can be created. The discussion should properly design with explicit learning objectives (“The Learning Organization – Knowledge Management,” n.d.). My company is a learning organization since it fosters an excellent learning environment and promotes idea sharing within projects in progress.
References
Amin, Y., & Mohamad, R. (2017). Knowledge management system model for learning organizations. International Journal Of Learning And Change, 9(4), 290. doi: 10.1504/ijlc.2017.087451
Desai, V. (2009). Fundamentals of entrepreneurship and small business management. Mumbai [India]: Himalaya Pub. House.
The Learning Organization – Knowledge Management. Retrieved 2020, from http://www.knowledge-management-tools.net/leadership-and-the-learning-organization.html
What Is a Learning Organization? | Convergence Training. Retrieved 2020, from https://www.convergencetraining.com/blog/what-is-a-learning-organization