Attributes of Learning Organization: Simulating the Relationships

Authors

  • James D. Foord
  • Charles E. Grantham

Abstract

For organizations to survive into the next millennium they must learn to adapt rapidly enough to meet the discontinuous changes brining about what Alvin Toffler calls the ‘Third Wave’. That is, successful organizations must learn how to learn. To do this, a culture that is open, flexible, proactive, and experimentive must be established within the organization. But how can an organization fighting for its survival in to midst of Intense, global competition create such a culture? This paper explores this question by focusing on the environmental conditions most conductive to learning If the gist of organizational learning Is ‘detecting and correcting errors’, what we the environmental conditions that most readily allow for this error detection. To this end, the paper proposes a process that combines diagnostic instrument, the Learning Organization Profile, with computer modeling to enable an organization to assess its ability to learn by identifying leaning enhancers and inhibitors within their environment.

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Published

2014-03-06