Barriers and Strategies for Organizational Learning in Australia

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
Organizational Learning
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Organizational Learning refers to process of the creation and the transferring of the
knowledge in an organization. An organization can improve its processes in the event of gaining
experiences. The organizational learning helps a company in staying competitive within the ever-
changing environment. Organizational learning can be said to be a process improvement which
can be instrumental in increasing the efficiency and the profits of a workforce (Dixon, 2017).
The knowledge transfer that takes place in an organization acts like an adaptive process that can
be said to be the function of the experience. This essay discusses about the barriers in relation to
organizational learning in Australia. The essay also talks about the strategies which can be
implemented for improving the process of the organizational learning.
There are certain barriers that impede the learning of the employees in organizations of
Australia. It has been found that the bounded rationality along with the inappropriate knowledge
of the members of the organization acts like a hurdle in the path of the organizational learning
within Australia. The employees are deficient and they are biased in relation to their function as
the sensors of the company. The barrier can be perceived in the fact that there is superstitious
learning in an organization. It causes the successes of the organization to be caused by that of the
managerial actions. The leaders in the organization think that the good performance of the
employees is owing to their strategies that play a role in increasing their confidence. It paves the
path for the retaining of an ineffective idea that can act like a barrier in the path of the
organizational success (Lafleur & Burtak, 2018). The second barrier in the path of
organizational learning exists on account of the characteristics of knowledge which is created in
process of the intuition. It has been found that there exists ambiguity in the learning that makes
organizational learning difficult for the members of an organization. The knowledge that is to be
learned has a cultural background that hinders the process of the organizational learning. There

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occur cultural differences that can make the process of organizational learning difficult for the
employees. Direct experience with production system can pave the path for the changes within
the cognitive schemata (North & Kumta, 2018). The third barrier to the organizational learning
occurs owing to the fact that there are work-related obstacles to the process of intuition. The
clear goals in an organization can help in overcoming the aspect of ambiguity in relation to
learning in an organization. The organizations have the tendency of increasing frequency of the
successful activities and it standardizes those processes. The members of the organization in
Australia cannot experiment with the work that obstructs the process of the organizational
learning. The experiential learning theory of Kolb talks about the fact that learning can be
facilitated in an organization with the help of concrete experiences along with the abstract
conceptualization (Grady, 2017). The learner in an organization should involve himself in
reflection that can help in the creation of a learning culture. It makes the organizational
knowledge limited that does not help in the growth of the members. This makes it difficult for
the employees to relate to the changing circumstances as they have not experienced results of the
varying procedures along with the routines. Professional role of that of the organizational
members can hinder the process pertaining to organizational learning in Australia (Berta et al.,
2015). It has been found that the motivation of the innovator is undermined and they are not
allowed to pursue their own idea.
The barriers to the process of the interpretation can create problems for an individual in
explaining the insight with the help of the words. He cannot explain himself completely to the
other members of organization that hampers the process of the organizational learning within
Australia. Learning cycle can be said to be broken which makes it difficult for the employees in
persuading other people so that they would change themselves. It has an effect on the aspect of