Management-Impulse

»Organizational learning is the creating, acquiring and transferring of distinctions and practices in the organization. It is effective if it increases the organization’s fit to its environment. Organizational learning implies behaviour modification, including changes in relationships, in order to create the conditions for creating, acquiring and transferring distinctions and practices. An organization is learning when people in it succeed in overcoming defensive practices, i. e. practices that reduce the chances of error detection or creating of new possibilities. An organization is learning when it evolves toward structures that on the one hand do not inhibit individual creativity and on the other do not overload or under-utilize people’s skills.«