Organizational Learning

To start talking about organizational learning, it is important to understand what is a learning organization; Senge (1994) provides this definition “places where people continually expand their capacities to create the result they truly desire, where new and expensive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspirations is set free and where people are continually learning how to learn together”.

Organizations are operating in an environment that is constant in change, also they must keep peace with this rapid change otherwise they are going to perish. Companies should be flexible and continually improve to be able to gain competitive advantage. Learning organizations have been identifies as the strategy for survival and growth in this global economy.

Organizational learning is very important since learning is linked with the capacity for change and improvement; it also describes organizations that experimented with new ways of conducting business in order to survive.

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India is a excellent example of a country in which organizations have adopted organizational learning in a good way; thanks this they are living a global expansion and are more competitive in the business environment, they have a thriving services sector and also present an Increase in FDI.

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