Learning Organization and its Importance in Human Resource Management

Running Head: Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management

Learning Organization is a company which facilitates the learning of its employees and
keeps on transforming itself. The concept was propounded by Peter Senge and its key
features include continuous learning, knowledge generation and sharing, system
thinking, learning culture, workplace flexibility and valuing employees. It is a very
important concept in the present day scenario as organisations are keen to invest the
resources in the learning and development of its employees. The benefits of learning
organization are magnanimous for the employees as well the organization, it results in
increased efficiency, low employee turnover, rise in productivity, culture creation,
leadership building and many more. It is a continuous process and it is highly advised
that it should become organizations DNA; this would help the organization in reaching
towards business sustainability (Senge, 2014).
A number of organization see learning as a cost to the organization, hence stay away
from it, however, doing this they lose the competition to the company which is focussed
on the learning organization. In order to implement learning culture at the organization
the following steps have to be ensured, the steps will encompass scoring, formative and
summative assessment from time to time:
 Self- audit of the organization to identify the present learning culture and
identifying lacunae for change in the culture.
 Start from the top and make learning as the organizational strategy.
 Creation of a shared strategy for developing accountability in the organization.
 Creating learning as a habitual behaviour for the organization.
 Develop the sharing of knowledge, skill and learning and provide coaching and
mentoring in the organization.
 Providing time to employees for both formal and informal learning.
 Identification of key learning and sharing them across the team in the
organization (Senge, Hamilton & Kania, 2015).
Scoring, formative and summative assessment form an important part of the learning
organization. Scoring assessment can be seen more as qualification criteria to see if the
employees have the basic skills and knowledge for further enhancement in their career.
It is the basic form of assessment every organization use during the process of
recruitment, it helps them in filtering the candidates and select the ones with the