UNITED INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Course code: HRM 686

Course Title: Organization Design and Development
Summer Semester: 2020

MID-TERM ASSESSMENT
Question - 1

Submitted To
Md. Musharrof Hossain
Founder President, FBHRO
Adjunct Faculty Member
School of Business & Economics
United International University

Submitted By
Jhorna Akter Shova
ID - 112192020

Date of Submission: August 16, 2020

Question No. – 1: Define learning organization? What are your major recommendations to
transform Bangladeshi organizations as the learning organizations?

Answer No. – 1: Learning Organization is the process by which an organization improves

itself over time through gaining experience and using that experience to create knowledge.
The knowledge created is then transferred within the organization. Learning Organizational is
important for all companies, as the creation, retention and transfer of knowledge within the
organization will strengthen the organization as a whole.

 When looking at the definition of organizational learning, there are three main actions
to consider:

 Conceive
 Act
 Reflect

An idea or product is conceived, the company creates the idea or product, then the company
must reflect. It is through this reflection of both process and outcome that learning will occur.
In addition to those actions, there are three key processes that occur in organizational
learning:

 Knowledge creation
 Knowledge retention
 Knowledge transfer

To define organizational learning is to understand the importance of creating a learning

culture within an organization. This type of learning benefits both individuals, teams, and the
organization as a whole. There are also positive intra-organizational benefits to this approach.

Major recommendations to transform Bangladeshi organizations as the

learning organizations

From the above definition, it is obvious that a developing country like Bangladesh has a long
way to reap the full potentials benefits of learning organization. As a first step, we should
follow the proven path already been taken by the high ranked learning organization ready
countries. From those perspectives we can make the following recommendations to follow in
several sectors in Governments as well as other organizations based on the criteria considered
by Economist for learning organization readiness ranking.

 Recommendations for Government

Government should play the leading role to spread and reap benefits from learning
organization. We come up with some useful recommendations for doing this:

 Analyze the needs of the end users- learner’s requirements, learner’ environments and
choice, etc.
 Recognize the benefits and take steps to grow confidence through success stories.
 Should take the necessary steps to develop proper ICT infrastructure required for
Learning Organization.
 Define a national strategy for moving towards and encourage others towards
deploying Learning Organization.
 Build cooperation with other non-government sectors and organizations.
 Should take strong and goal-oriented initiatives to migrate all of its paper-based
services into e-Governance
 Should take positive steps to develop various training programs for government
employees to improve their efficiency.
 Should give encouragement and proper incentive to participate in the training
programs.
 Should guide the members for advocating Learning Organization for mass motivation.
 Should take necessary steps to provide financial facilities for those who are interested
to deploy Learning Organization.
 Develop and legal issue concerning Learning Organization.

 Recommendations for Industry

In Bangladesh private sector organizations play a very significant role in the economy. So
they should prepare themselves to introduce and advance Learning Organization through
their organizations. Some useful recommendations are:
  Develop ICT infrastructure within the organization and provide in house training
through e-Learning systems.
 Encourage production of Learning Organization modules by being a consumer of the
modules or by producing them.
 Take initiatives to build partnership programs with government and other peer
organizations on a win-win condition.
 Develop sustainable business models by bringing innovative ideas to create new
horizons.
 Gain sustainability by involving with government strategies, action plans and
implementations.
 Organize and support research and development work in novel ways.

 Recommendations for Society

Mass people and culture is important for adoption of Learning Organization. Social view for
technology and modern learning methods should be adaptive. Recommendations for people
can be summarized below:

 Social motivation should be positive towards education.

 Positive attitude to adopt innovating technology and thinking such as novel learning
methodologies.
 Activities should be taken to increase self-awareness.
 Understanding the need of current competitive world.
 Motivate the government and other organizations to reflect views of mass people.

 Recommendations for Education

Education sector will establish Learning Organization and in return will be nourished by
Learning Organization. For the purpose of educating mass people of Bangladesh and to reach
the general education to the remote areas Learning Organization can play very important role.
To fulfill these purposes, education system should

 Provide improved and sustainable platform for Learning Organization.

 Open ICT departments to enhance ICT based knowledge.
 Present an integrated framework for Learning Organization.
  Introduce ICT as a tool for improved teaching and learning experience.
 Develop curriculum and content for Learning Organization preferably in native
language.
 Arrange training for teachers and instructors
 Design standard for evaluation of Learning Organization systems.

The recommendation mentioned in this paper is not the unique approach to prepare
Bangladesh ready for Learning Organization. But these can be considered as an important
approach. We can start to move forward with these recommendations and the further details
will come out along the way. We have done this task as an initiative for Learning
Organization movements of Bangladesh and for accomplishment of this huge task all
government and non-government sectors should have to come on a single platform and take
an integrated plan.