Organizational Learning and Development Theories, Models and Practice

Learning and Development

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Difference between organizational learning and learning organization......................................3
Learning development theories, models and practice..................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

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INTRODUCTION
Organizational learning refers a continuous process of creating, transferring and retaining
knowledge within an organization (Basten and Haamann, 2018). Organizations can improve over
time when they gain experience and gain knowledge by performing day to day functions. This
study is going to discuss difference between organizational learning and learning organization on
some bases in order to develop knowledge and creating a learning environment within business.
It will further discuss effectiveness of organizational learning as how it can help companies in
improving their performance. Organizational learning and development theories and models also
play a vital role as it also helps companies in improving their learning culture where employees
can work with effectiveness and can improve their overall performance.
Difference between organizational learning and learning organization
There are some differences between organizational learning and learning organization but
before understanding differences of specific basis, it is important to understand the meaning of
both. Both these terms as learning organization and organizational learning helps companies in
improving their performance and help them out to mitigate problems or threats that they face.
Organizational learning: In regard to this, it can be said that it refers a process of
organization that is being followed for gaining knowledge related to its operations and functions.
The reason of following this process of gaining knowledge is to adapt changes that happen
within business environment for increasing efficiency and improving performance (Bilan and
et.al., 2020). It is also found that the main focus of organizational learning is on learning from
knowledge and experience that have been gathered by performing day to day activities.
In other words, it can be said that organizational learning is a reactive approach because this
learning is based on correction or detection found by company. So, it can be said that it is all
about a solution that employees or organization as whole find due to some drastic changes that
happen within business. Employees learn more about changes and ways of solving problems,
changing adapting situations while working within organizations or from their day to day
activities. There are main 4 concepts that can make organizational learning such as: information
distribution, knowledge acquisition, organizational memory and information interpretation. This
learning does not evaluate effectiveness of and also there will not be any changes in behaviour
patterns of learners (Park and Kim, 2018). This organizational learning helps employees in