Organizational learning

Theories seeking to explain individual learning, organizational learning and the processes involved in this function have been around quite a while, aim guessing this is because is not an easy thing to understand. So let’s try to fit ourselves into their pants and try to decipher what leaning is.

Learning goes hand and hand with the word knowledge. “Knowledge is Power” (Francis Bacon), and learning is a process of acquiring knowledge or a skill. A little tricky to understand, but In general due to different perceptual processes people pick up different pieces of information from world with this resulting in learning styles and processes varying from one to another. Now let’s take a deeper look into theories to make a more theoretical understanding.

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One classical theory that i like is the Operant Conditioning  by Burrhus Frederic Skinner, is pretty simple thing to understand , is  just Modifying behavior through the use of positive or negative consequences . let´s look at this video that pretty much sums up what Frederic explains (Positive reinforcement is getting rewarded e.g. Chocolate, toy etc, Negative reinforcement is removing something that would be a positive e.g. Well done, you don’t have to do the dishes anymore (taking the 'negative' thing away as a reward.)

Continuing wearing the pants and trying to understand another theory that can help us is the social learning theory by Albert Bandura, this theory explains how human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive, behavioral, and environmental influences.

Blah blah blah blah……..what it means is that we learn through other people, by viewing other. This video can help us understand more. Warning…. It might give you chills.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_s9pG5CWXM&feature=fvwrel

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Now let’s take off the pants… what did we learn???. Learning is very important thing to do especially if we are in an organizational this would help the organization run, grow and prosper. And it is very important to be a good role model because people is constantly watching from one another and learning from one another.

To obtain and sustain competitive advantage, organizations must enhance their learning capability and must be able to learn better and faster from their successes and failures, from within and from outside (Marquardt, 1996.

According to Kavita Singh, what is the relationship between the learning organization and

organizational culture ?

She believes that the culture should be closely related to the environment do sd to enable the organization to benefit from the changes and remain competitive. To make the transition to a learning organization, organizations require a culture that supports and facilitates this transformation. Learning organization require a culture that supports ans facilitates learning.

BIBLIO

Singh, Kavita. 2010. ¨An analysis of relationship between the learning organization and organization culture in indian business organization. organization and markets in emerging economies. vol 1.