The Learning Organization to Strength Skills in Businesses

Introduction

In current world, continuous improvement and learning has become part of everyone’s life. Especially people who are professionals a working in some organization are constantly in need to re-fresh their knowledge base, so as to remain relevant with progressing time. Organizations are equally aware of this need, that’s why they continuously work towards facilitating an environment where an employee or member of that organization can continue learning and enable its transformation through knowledge enhancement. Such organization which facilitates such environment are termed as Learning Organization.

Concept of learning organization has originated out of sheer need to tackle the ever-growing competitive market and struggle to remain relevant with advancement. Hence organization transforms itself into a learning organization more out of requirement to face other competitor or organization and compete with them on equal grounds in an extremely volatile business environment. Learning Organization concept was basically termed by research of Peter Senge and his colleagues (Senge, 1991).The core idea behind this concept is to enable an organization towards interconnected thought process further enabling an organization to work more like a community to which an employee can feel committed to. And it is assumed that an employee is more hard working and productive when he is committed to an organization.

Need of a Learning Organization

No organization automatically becomes a learning organization. There are several underlying factors which triggers subtle change over the time in a normal organization eventually progressing them towards becoming a learning organization. With passage of time, a specific organization tends to st...

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...arket. More importantly, learning organization are not just limited to being productive and efficient, but one major impact which it creates on its employees and people involved is the enhancement in the decision making and judgment skills (Simonin, 1997).

A well informed and aware employee will have high probability of taking a correct and logical decision as compared to one who has stuck to conventional thought process. Interestingly key resources and managers are well aware of how to make an organization learn, but at times they are clueless about creating a framework through which they can encourage learning organization. This challenge highlights the core issue which always needs to be taken care of, before embarking on the journey of creating an organization whose learning environment is strongly rooted with the logical and firm foundations the organization.