KMLEARNINGS
WELCOME TO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
LEARNINGS
LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
"A learning organization is an
organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at
modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights." –Garvin
Peter
Senge, founder of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning and author of the
widely influential book The Fifth Discipline gives the following
definition and concepts:
“This then is the basic meaning of a
'learning organization' -- an organization that is continually expanding its
capacity to create its future. For such an organization, it is not enough
merely to survive. 'Survival learning' [adaptive learning] is necessary. But
for a learning organization, 'adaptive learning' must be joined by 'generative
learning,' learning that enhances our capacity to create.”
Senge has
overviewed the practice and theory of the Learning Organisation in terms of
five "disciplines", that include many tools and infra-structures:
PERSONAL MASTERY
MENTAL MODELS
SHARED VISION
TEAM LEARNING
SYSTEMS THINKING
Peter Senge’s concepts of learning organizations imply
“Organizations where people continually expand their capacity to
create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of
thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where
people are continually learning how to learn together.
Today and in
the future, the organizations that will truly excel will be the ones that
discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all
levels in an organization. Learning organizations
are fundamentally different from traditional authoritarian controlling
organizations”.
As per Prof Barry
Sugarman, Ph.D., Professor of Management at Lesley College:
“The central thesis
of the L.O. paradigm holds (1) that a key success factor for any organization
in the age of global competition is its ability to innovate continuously,
appropriately, and faster than its rivals., and (2) that that can only happen
through releasing the untapped capabilities of all its employees.
Hence the key to
successful organizations lies not in the areas of better control by managers
but in the areas of better learning by all workers (including managers) -- not
just individual learning but also (even more) collective learning.
The Learning
Organization approach is not just about improving productivity and work
satisfaction, however. It is also about the fundamental ethics of the workplace
and the marketplace. Whereas, under the old paradigm, it seemed that we could
only have economic success at the expense of humane values, it now seems that
we can only have them both together. “
WISDOM
OF ANCIENT SEERS
The change in mindset and development of positive culture to enhance
productivity and motivating employees to stretch beyond limits, can take sparks
from the wisdom of ancient seers. The following passage from Chandogya
Upanishad penetrates deep into the fundamental concepts related to growth.
“Where there is creation there is progress.
Where there is no creation there is no progress;
know the nature of creation.
Where there is joy there is creation.
Where there is no joy there is no creation;
know the nature of joy.
Where there is Infinite there is joy.
There is no joy in
the finite.
Only in the infinite there is joy;
know the nature of the infinite.”
From “The Upanishads” by Juan Mascaro
Here, finite can be related to stagnation whereas the infinite can be
related to continuous positive transformation. These powerful lines definitely offer
insights for continuous growth and passion for excellence.
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