Learning Organizations in a Global Environment

Today, with the global changes that face organizations and with the increase to the competition in the market, issues of diversity and globalization, and the ability to innovate are more critical for the success and survival of the business organization. With organizations just beginning to understand the importance of global challenges, there are few organizations embracing globalization to the level of creating a corporate culture that is globally practicing and at all levels. Because corporate culture is so intensely set in many organizations, promoting global change becomes complex and staff members often challenge or resent such changes.

Organizations need to not only develop and offer new services or product line, they need the capability to have creative solutions to challenges and problems, and members within the organization need to possess the experience and knowledge. Learning organizations are committed to management approached and concepts such as change management, knowledge, organizational development, and learning by acting. Approaches such as these function as transition methods in developing learning organizations. The philosophy lies in fact that the organizations wants to succeed, and survive, with training and education as the main parts of organizations policy.

Organizations looking at becoming global are required to establish a corporate value and culture system, which allows the organization to move resources wherever needed in the global market in order for the to achieve its maximum competitive advantage. Becoming a global organization requires the skills and the mindset extending outside most organizations current scope. Global mindset and behavioral change are largely what drives the global...

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...reated by Senge are personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, and team learning, and systems thinking all of which when used together assist in the change model process for both the organization and its staff members.

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