Senge The learning organisation

SENGE: the learning organisation

Identify the benefits associated with being and becoming a learning organisation.

Why would a business bother?

e.g. To sustain business activities and remain viable

• To sustainably remain viable

• To adapt to this period of rapid change

• To improve business competitiveness

• To inspire commitment from workers

What’s holding a business back?

e.g. Forcing people to learn creates resistance

• Fears personal mastery can empower workers in unexpected ways

• Forcing people to learn creates resistance

• Lack of learning culture can devalue or ignore learning or think learning is only for management

levels

• Workers may feel threatened by change an not engage with mental models

• Training may be considered a controlling tool rather than personal development

• Bigger businesses can have difficulty sharing knowledge

• Lack of time to get together, reflect and study what is being learned