Importance of becoming a Learning Organization
The concept of “Learning Organization” came in to the spotlight
around year 1990. As per Senge Learning Organizations were defined as “those
where people are continually learning how to learn together”.
1.
System thinking
2.
Mental Models
3.
Shared Vision
4.
Personal Mastery
5.
Team Learning
Organizations
that practices above disciplines will establish following strengths.
1.
Systematic Problem Solving
2.
Learning from Past experience
3.
Learning from others
4.
Benchmarking (in the industry)
5.
Transferring knowledge fast and effectively by
seconding those with new knowledge.
When we examine these factors it indicates that an organization
having these will definitely have a competitive advantage. (Marquardt,
2011)
These factors will speed up the decision making process of
an organization while the decisions made tend to be more accurate.
Organizational amnesia is again a common failure reason in
today s business arena, thus learning from past experience and learning from
others will play a major role to avoid such situations in a learning organization.
Adding to that learning from others as well as speedy transferring
of knowledge will increase readiness to change, flexibility as well as more alignment
to the latest developments of the industry. (Marquardt,
2011)
Benchmarking is crucial for employer branding. This will
increase the EVP (Employer Value Proposition) in the eyes of potential
employees. Thus the company will have better changes of attracting and retaining
the highly talented employees.
The employees at learning organizations will be more loyal,
more engaged as well as more motivated since this culture of the organization ensures
the personal development of people allowing them to achieve their aspirations
while achieving the organizational goals.
(Education,
2014)
Hence, it is crucial that employers understand the importance
of becoming a learning organization and working towards establishing the
culture
References
References
Education, H. R. (Ed.). (2014, September 21). Human
Resources & Education. Retrieved December 14, 2017, from biv.com:
https://biv.com/article/2014/09/benefits-creating-organizational-learning-culture
Garvin, D. A. (1993). Building a Learning
Organization. In D. A. Garvin, Building a Learning Organization.
Harvard Business School.
Marquardt, M. (2011). Building the Learning
Organization. In M. Marquardt, Building the Learning Organization.
Boston: American Society for Traning & Development.
Senge, P. (1990). The Fifth Discipline. In P. Senge,
The Fifth Discipline (p. 3). Crown Publishing Group.
Yes Neoshini, as you have mentioned it is crucial for employers to understand the importance and the benefits of a learning organization. adding to the point, for an learning organization to achieve success it is as equal as important to develop a learning culture within, for it may impact positive business results. It could be by means of setting of organizational values, processes, and practices that will encourage individuals and the organization as a whole; to increase knowledge, competence, and performance.
ReplyDeleteLearning has to be consistent with environmental changes and as per market place demands. Thus, it's important to maintain a knowledge hub which would continue consistent learning amount employees.....
ReplyDeleteLearning from experience and learning from others is key to not making same mistakes over and again and to be proactive in the market environment to take competitive advantage. However, organisational culture has a direct impact on this and HR Department should make every effort to create a conducive culture.
ReplyDeleteCompetitors of learning organization will be keen to pullout employees to join them. Thus, while implementing the learning learning culture HR will require to build up strategies towards building retention and loyalty as well.
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