Why Apply Organizational Learning in Organizations?

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Why Apply Organizational Learning in Organizations?
Organizational learning is a social process, involving interactions among many individuals leading to well-informed decision making.
An organization must learn so that it can adapt to a changing environment.
Historically, the life-cycle of organizations typically spanned stable environments between major socio-economic changes.
More recently this changed and many Fortune 500 companies of two decades ago no longer exist.
Given the ever-accelerating rate of global-scale change, learning and adaptation become more critical for the organization's relevance, success and ultimately survival.

That's why it's so important that creating, adapting and sharing ideas must all be rewarded.
This processes of knowledge or skill sharing must supersede the control processes with respect to employees, empowering them.

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		Ceferino Dulay, Jr., Philippines
	1 Align Organizational Learning with Competences Organizational learning and development needs to be aligned with organizational direction to maximize its benefits, not only to the organization but also to the individual. For example, in strategic planning, the core competence of the organization is identified. From this, specific competencies such as areas and levels of expertise that support this core competence can be identified. This then can be the basis for competency evaluation and development of people which is supported by training in the identified areas and levels (a ladder can be designed). I have worked with SMEs to develop training courses (based on their particular area of expertise) and for this purpose, conducted a technical trainers training since the technical areas are usually limited to the organization. Trainings for behavioral and management areas can be sourced from outside the organization. In this way, training curricula for different areas are developed covering technical, behavioral and managerial.

		Jaap de Jonge Editor, Netherlands
	5 Organizational Agility and Organizational Learning are Both Core Competences Thanks Sujan for starting this important topic. No doubt organizations need to become more flexible/agile. There are at least 3 forms of organizational agility: operational, strategic and portfolio a (...)

		Thabo Johnson, South Africa
	2 The Value of Organisational Learning Organisational Learning adds value when guided by the external and internal situational characteristics of the organisation. Pearce and Robinson (2009:10) Greenley (1986:101-109) posit that organisat (...)

		francisslobo, India
	0 Value from Organizational Learning Approaches While I agree to all, for any approach towards organizational learning it's clear that nothing can happen without the support of the management. The managerial staff should be supported and trained t (...)

		Omondi, Kenya
	2 Organizational Learning and Learning Organizations are Crucial but are Hard to Create Organisational learning develops learning organizations. And learning organizations normally evolve strategically and improve step by step to become better with time. As narrated by the @Jaap de Jonge (...)

		Ian Graham Consultant, United Kingdom
	3 Organisational Learning (OL) Must Start at the Top Great topic Sujan. We all agree that there is a serious need to change management thinking towards OL. There have been many models of OL that overall are hard to implement. I don't think we are targe (...)

		Juan Manuel Ugarte Professor, Mexico
	3 Organizational Learning Concepts Since approximately three decades ago, several OL concepts have been deeply studied and developed in a consistent way, including: - The "learning by doing" approach that has had an important impact a (...)

		Rajesh Sharma, Nepal
	1 Why and How Organizational Learning Helps the Employees and the Organization OL is also a very important tool of organizational change. It helps employees learn new changes and developments in the competitive environment. The most successful strategies of competitors may also (...)

		Renee Isaacs, South Africa
	1 Organisation Learning is Focus Area Organisational learning in any organisation should be a focus area if it would like to stay competitive in the global village. (...)

		Stefania Di Cristofalo Coach, Italy
	5 Learning Organizations Allow Organization to Adapt and Evolve A Learning organization is a social system whose evolution is guaranteed by adaptive processes and self-organization policy. Managers should be helped to overcome the fear to deal with the uncertainty (...)