A learning organization is one that facilitates learning for all its members and continually transforms itself. It has systems and processes in place to enhance the capabilities of both its employees and the organization to achieve sustainable goals. A key aspect is an organization's ability to use the knowledge and skills of all its members to improve processes and detect and correct errors. Learning occurs both individually and collectively as people expand their thinking and learn together towards shared values.

1. What is
Learning
Organization ?
Uwes Anis Chaeruman

2. "The essence of organisational
learning is the organization's
ability to use the amazing mental
capacity of all its members to
create the kind of processes that
will improve its own."
(Nancy Dixon, 1994)

3. "A Learning Company is
an organization that
facilitates the learning of
all its members and
continually transforms
itself."
(M. Pedler, J. Burgoyne and Tom Boydell, 1991)

4. “Organizations where people continually
expand their capacity to create the
results they truly desire, where new and
expansive patterns of thinking are
nurtured, where collective aspiration is
set free, and where people are
continually learning to learn together"
(Peter Senge, 1990)

5. Learning organizations are those that have
in place systems, mechanisms and
processes, that are used to continually
enhance their capabilities and those who
work with it or for it, to achieve sustainable
objectives - for themselves and the
communities in which they participate.
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6. “…….. defines organizational learning as
the process of "detection and correction of
errors." In his view organizations learn
through individuals acting as agents for
them: "The individuals' learning activities,
in turn, are facilitated or inhibited by an
ecological system of factors that may be
called an organizational learning system"
(Argyris (1977)

7. “The Learning Company is a vision of what
might be possible. It is not brought about
simply by training individuals; it can only
happen as a result of learning at the whole
organization level. A Learning Company is an
organization that facilitates the learning of all
its members and continuously transforms
itself”.
(Pedler et. al. 1991: 1)

8. “Learning organizations are characterized
by total employee involvement in a
process of collaboratively conducted,
collectively accountable change directed
towards shared values or principles.”
(Watkins and Marsick 1992: 118)