California Management Reviews

Running head: LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS
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Introduction
The learning organizations may be referred as those organizations which help in ensuring
that a firm is being able to prosper well in the long run. A learning organization tends to
transform itself continuously and ensures that the overall goals will be attained successfully. In
line with this, it becomes effectively critical to note that for a firm to be successful in the long
run the learning organization as a concept will be fruitful. The main aim of the report is to
outline the meaning of a learning organization and to understand the manner in which a firm
tends to perform accordingly. According to Bhaskar and Mishra (2017) , the learning
organization forms the need of the hour and all organizations as functioning in the business
environment would be required to see to it ta they are being able to develop and evolve
continuously with the help of which they will be able to achieve and attain all the objectives
successfully. The report will assess the analysis of three different articles; understand the
definitions of the learning organizations, its benefits, disadvantages and how a firm can apply the
same.
Summary of the articles
Ege, T., Esen, A., & Aşık Dizdar, Ö. (2017). Organizational learning and learning organizations:
An integrative framework. Uluslararası Yönetim İktisat ve İşletme Dergisi, 13(2), 439-460.
The first chapter outlines the different ways in which the learning organizations generally
tend to function. The paper has adopted a secondary format whereby vast domains of literature
will be assessed consistently and this will contribute towards understanding how the learning
organizations generally tend to perform in the long run. Hence, the paper has presented a set of

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frameworks which can be adequately applied in order to see to it that, the enterprise is being able
to understand how the learning organizations as a concept will be effective.
Serrat, O. (2017). Building a learning organization. In Knowledge solutions (pp. 57-67).
Springer, Singapore.
Learning is considered to be the key to success and hence, in such a scenario, ensuring
competitive success is essential. Therefore, the aim of the study is to outline how the
organizations tend to become the learning organizations and also aims to understand the manner
in which a firm can become knowledge enriched and be able to transform it continuously.
Bhaskar, A. U., & Mishra, B. (2017). Exploring relationship between learning organizations
dimensions and organizational performance. International Journal of Emerging Markets.
The aim of the paper is to understand and validate the concept of the learning
organization with the help of which, it aims to understand the manner in which the organizational
process towards becoming a good dimensional firm is understood. The study through its
procedure revealed that, the enterprises which tend to rely heavily on associated learning
dimensions, would be required to perform adequately well and it ca become a learning
organization gradually.
Definition of learning organizations
According to Daft and Steers (1986), a learning organization can be described as the
enterprise which tends to facilitate the learning of its members on a continuous basis and has the
ability to transform regularly. The concept of a learning organization was penned by Peter Senge.