CHARACTERISTICS OF

LEARNING ORGANIZATION
CONTENTS

• WHAT IS A LEARNING ORGANIZATION?

• NATURE

• CHARACTERISTICS

• CORE AREAS

• LEVELS

• CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

• CONCLUSION
 LEARNING ORGANIZATION

• A learning organization is the term given to a company that facilitates the learning of its members and
continuously transforms itself.

• This concept was coined through the work and research of Peter Senge and his colleagues.

“A place where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and
expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspirations are set free, where people are
continually learning to learn together.” – Peter Senge
 NATURE OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION

A learning organization is one that:

• Seeks to create its own future.

• Assumes learning is an ongoing and creative process for its members.

• Develops, adapts and transforms itself in response to the needs and aspirations of people, both
inside and outside itself.

• Allows people at all levels, individually and collectively, to continually increasing their
capacity to produce results.
 CHARACTERISTICS

• New ideas and information.

• Strive to reduce structural, process and interpersonal barriers to the sharing of

information, ideas and knowledge.

• Encourage employees and encourage an environment to use information, ideas and

knowledge to achieve corporate
 CORE AREAS OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION

Senge discussed five core areas that need to be emphasized by any organization that seeks to evolve into a learning
organization. They are:

• Personal mastery

• Mental models

• Working in teams

• Shared visions

• Systems thinking
 LEVELS OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION

In order to create a learning organization, managers need to encourage learning

at 4 levels:-

INDIVIDUA
L GROUP

INTER-
ORGANIZATIONA
ORGANIZATIONA
L
L
 CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

To create a learning organization the following is a must for an organization:

• All employees from top management to the rank and file workers must establish a commitment to change for
bringing about changes for improvements of the organizations.

• To accept change more readily formal boundaries between people are to be eliminated.

• To adapt effectively, organizations should develop a culture of openness and growth by fully incorporating
employees into challenges faced by the organization.
 CONCLUSION

“Without learning the wise become foolish; by learning, the foolish become wise.”