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Learning plays a vital role in the success of organizations. All of the employees in an organization must do their best and work together to help the organization be successful. Peter Senge (2006), in his book titled The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, indicated the characteristics of a learning organization as follows:
There exists a shared vision that everyone agrees on.
People discard their old ways of thinking and the standard routines that they use for solving problems or doing their jobs.
Members think of all organizational processes, activities, functions, and interactions with the environment as part of a system of inter-relationships.
People openly communicate with each other across vertical and horizontal boundaries without fear of criticism or punishment.
People sublimate their personal self-interest and fragmented departmental interests to work together to achieve the organization’s shared vision.
However, defining a learning organization has always been difficult, as discussed in this video. This video: https://youtu.be/D1iO2QwJYAI
states that without the ability to grow through change, the organization will eventually lose its ability to sustain itself and go out of business. Conduct research on learning organizations by accessing the CTU Library and using a minimum of 3 scholarly articles on the subject matter along with other information derived from other sources.
Focus your discussion on the following:
1. What is the role of the leader in creating an atmosphere that enables the learning organization?
2. In addition to creating the learning organization’s atmosphere, what must the leader do every day within the learning organization to create the optimum conditions to help their team survive and thrive with change?
3. What has occurred in your organization that has led to a successful learning organization?
4. How do the concepts of change management and learning organizations align to form organizations that are able to more readily adapt to their changing environment to improve or sustain their market position and continuously add value to their performance?
References
Sarder, R. [Russell Sarder]. (2015, June 5). How do you define a learning organization? by Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc2ruCErTok
Senge, P. M. (2006). The fifth discipline: The art & practice of the learning organization. Doubleday.
TEDx Talks. (2017, December 9). Growing through change: A how-to for leaders of learning organisations | Yves Givel | TEDxSHMS [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1iO2QwJYAI
I have attched three articles also from the CTU library.
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