Principles of Organizational Learning.

Five Principles of Organizational Learning

According to Harrison (1997) five principles of a learning organization is as follows;

• The necessity of a coherent and a powerful vision must be communicated throughout the organization for the requirement of the strategic thinking at all levels.
• The necessity of developing a strategy in the context of a vision which is open-ended, unambiguous and powerful. This will encourage the search for wide strategic options, lateral thinking and will orient knowledge gathering activities among the employees.
• The frequent communication and conversations in the framework of the vision and goals can be a main facilitator in the organizational learning process.
• The continuously people are required to be challenged re-inquire what they take for granted.
• The development of conducive learning innovative climate is essential.

Garvin (1993, as cited in Armstrong, 2006) shows that the learning organizations are good at doing five factors:

• Systematic Problem solving,
• Experimentation.
• Learning from Past Experiences.
• Learning from other’s.
• Transferring the knowledge efficiently throughout the organization.

The infamous internet search directory Google, is a fine example to define the practice of the elements described above by Garvin (1993, as cited in Armstrong, 2006). As described by Annika ( 2014) It's learning culture made their employees motivated to come to work to make its products and services better, learn from their past experiences, share their experiences with each other and learn from each other and engage in systematic problem solving.