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“Toward a Learning Organization”: The strategic
Building Blocks By: Swee C. Goh
University of Ottawa1998
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Introduction • What is a learning organization• How to become a learning organization• What are the payoffs of becoming a learning
organizations.• What should I do to encourage learning
organization • How I know my organization is a learning
organization.• What are the characteristics of learning
organizations, how to sustain one
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The Learning Organization• Learning Organizations is the term given to a
company that facilitates the learning of its members and continuously transforms itself.
• Learning organization Is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring and transferring knowledge, and modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights (Garvin, 1993).
• Organizational Learning is a long term activity that will build competitive advantage over time and requires sustain management attention, commitment and effort.
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Building Learning Organizations• There are essential and strategic role of the
leaders on the organization to develop the learning organization process .
• Identify a bundle of managerial practices and organizational process that differentiate these learning companies .
• Set a Five strategic building blocks • Apply two Supportive organization design
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Learning Organizations Five Building Blocks
1- Clarity and Support for Mission and Vision 2- Shared Leadership and Involvement 3- A culture that Encourages Experimentation 4- Ability to Transfer Knowledge across Organizational Boundaries . 5- Teamwork and Cooperation .
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Strategic Architecture of a Learning Organizati
onClarity and Support for Mission/vision
Teamwork &
Cooperation
Transfer of knowledge
Shared Leadership & Involvement
An Experimenting Organizational Culture
Supportive Organization
Design/Structure
Employee Competencies & Knowledge Acquisition
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Supporting Foundation
1- Organizational Design : The organization structure of learning organizations has been described in the literature as organic, flat, and decentralized, with a minimum of formalized procedures in the work environment.
2- Employee Skills and Development: The literature on learning organizations frequently asserts that these organizations strongly emphasize the training and skill development of their employees.
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Measurement and Intervention - Organization have to De- liberate
interventions in the organization design, and required to apply appropriate training and skill development program to reinforce employee learning.
- A Measurement process to diagnose the new organizational archetype on applying the five building blocks and the two foundations.
- Assessing and evaluating the current organization design and skill development program.
- Organization must Determine whether overall learning capability has also improved.
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Challenges - Many of the early discussions about learning organizations were paeans to a better world rather than concrete prescriptions.- Effective knowledge transfer seems to be the
most problematic and difficult (Goh, 2002)- Difficulties to design assessment tools .- How we can present the competitive
advantage of the learning organization?- How we can measure the ROI?