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Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization

2015; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4018/978-1-4666-8318-1.ch012

2326-7615

Hamid Tohidi,

Complex Systems and Decision Making

Organizational learning and learning organization are two constructs based on conceptual metaphors. Organizational learning is a process that occurs across individual, group, and organizational levels through intuiting, interpreting, integrating, and institutionalizing. It is a purposeful process designed and sustained by inspired leadership. It may be an adaptive process based on the single-loop learning or a generative process based on the double-loop learning. The organization that is capable of transforming organizational learning into the engine of knowledge creation aiming at building up a competitive advantage may become a learning organization. Peter Senge developed the theory of the five disciplines that may transform a company into a learning organization, focusing on systems thinking. The purpose of this chapter is to present different views concerning organizational learning and its main characteristics.