Learning Organization
Essays

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable advantage. -- Cliff Purington, Chris Butler and Sarah Fister Gale, 2003

The Skokie library (Illinois) is special in that it has won several awards including the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The library functions on the premise that it is there to assist its users in…

Peter Senge is accredited with the development of the framework and principles of the 'learning organization'. The work of Senge "The Fifth Discipline" is a springboard for many other theorists and scholars of…

The paper creates the understanding of a learning organization, and offers a definition of "undelivered promise" in relation to an organization. It identifies various barriers that prevent an organization from a achieving the status of a learning organization. It includes organization culture as one of the possible barrier to the accomplishment of a learning organization.

Knowledge is power, and in a competitive world, no organization should overlook the role it plays in providing a competitive edge for an organization. Learning in organization occurs at both the individual and collective level. The paper that follows examines the role that a procurement department can play in enhancing learning in an organization.

Learning Organization is defined as an organization with an ingrained philosophy for anticipating, reacting and responding to change, complexity and uncertainty. It is an organization where you cannot not learned…

The paper summarizes and reviews an article on learning organizations. The paper starts with a literature review explores the characteristics that are found in learning organizations. These characteristics are then utilized in a qualitative case study approach, which assesses the presence of learning organisation characteristics in order to identify barriers to organisational learning. The article also compares reality to theory. The paper ends with an assessment of the article.

Abstract The concept of learning environments has been in existence since the last quarter of the 20th century. Globalization and increased competition have increased its significance in recent decades. This text, in addition to illustrating why it is important for organizations to embrace learning, outlines the characteristics that distinguish learning organizations from traditional ones, and describes how an organization can create a learning environment for its members

The modern day business climate is more challenging and dynamic and it forces the economic agents to seek alternative sources of strategic advantages. One example in this sense is represented by the enhancement of the emphasis placed on supporting learning and the continuous development of the organization of learning. While this concept is gaining more and more interest within the economic agents, it is also highly applicable within public entities, such as hospitals.

What constitutes a learning organization?