LEARNING

ORGANISATION

AROCKIA SHINY S
18-PCO-007
MEANING:
Learning organisation facilitate
collective learning in order to
continually improve the capacity
to respond to changing demands
in the environment.
DEFINITION:
 “Aplace 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
FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF A
LEARNING ORGANIZATION:
 Systems thinking : The idea of the learning
organization developed from a body of work.
 Personal mastery :  The discipline of
continually clarifying and deepening
employee’s personal vision, of focusing their
energies, of developing patience, and of
seeing reality objectively.
 Mental models : The assumptions held by
individuals and organizations.
 Building shared vision : Creates a
common identity that provides focus and
energy for learning. 
 Team learning : Accumulation of individual
learning constitutes team learning.
LEVELS OF LEARNING ORGANISATION:
IN ORDER TO CREATE A LEARNING ORGANISATION,
MANAGERS NEED TO ENCOURAGE LEARNING AT 4 LEVELS:
Individual Group

Organisational

Inter-Organisational
CREATING A LEARNING
ORGANIZATION:
Actions for a leader to create a learning organisation:
 Drive people to learn by doing.

 Realize that training is just a tool to impart

knowledge. 
 Incorporate learning into your processes.

 Expose the teams to diverse learning resources.

 Use technology to accelerate learning and ensure

accessibility of knowledge.
 Involve people in important change initiatives.

 Promote the abilities of people to generate

alternative ideas and open up to different view
points.
 Allow people to make mistakes and learn from them.
BENEFITS OF A LEARNING
ORGANIZATION:
 Maintaining levels of innovation and remaining competitive
 Being better placed to respond to external pressures

 Having the knowledge to better link resources to customer

needs
 Improving quality of outputs at all the levels

 Improving the corporate image of the organization by

becoming more people oriented
 Increasing the pace of change within the organization

 Strengthening sense of community in the

organization
 Improving long term decision making

 Improving knowledge sharing

CHALLENGES OF LEARNING
ORGANISATION:
 Stubbornness and Resistance to
Change
 Lack of Direct Leadership
 Team success and unity must be
valued equally and not more than
Individual.
 Too Much Control
 Stress
 Capital investment
CONCLUSION:

“Without learning the wise become foolish;

By learning, the foolish become wise.”
THANK
YOU!