A Learning Organization is a company that encourages the learning of its individuals and continuously transforms itself.

There is a huge number of definitions of a learning organization, Senge expressed in a meet that a learning organization may be a group of individuals working together collectively to upgrade their capacities to form comes about they truly care about. Senge popularized the concept of the learning organization through his book The Fifth Teach and he proposed the taking after five characteristics,

Senge’s five disciplines of learning organizations or Senge’s learning organization describes how to oversee the victory and improvement of an organization and how workers grant the additional mile that goes past the desires of the company.

Peter Senge's five disciplines of Learning Organization as follows,

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1. Systems Thinking -

 Instead of focusing on individual issues, system thinking reflects the observational process of an entire system. Managers have to understand that every action and consequence is correlated with another.

2. Shared Vision –

The development in a shared vision is most important to motivate the employees to the learning, the shared vision is often to succeed against a competitor The effect of sharing the same vision is that employees do tasks because they want to do so instead of they are told to do so.as a result, the shared vision encourages the members to share their own experience and options thus enhance the effects of organizational learning.

3. Mental Model –

According to Peter Senge, the employees must identify the values of the company and what the business is all about. Individual mental models depict what individuals can or cannot identify.

4. Personal Mastery –

Personal mastery occurs when an individual has a clear vision of a goal, combined with an accurate perception of reality. According to Peter Senge, we should train our subconscious mind because it can handle more complex problems quicker than what our consciousness can. When people believe in their own powerlessness, it will hold them back from realizing their vision. For this reason, we should train the subconscious mind to tackle the stress and problems in reality.

5. Team Learning-

To accomplish excellent functional team dynamics, team-learning is a primary importance. It is the discipline by which personal mastery and shared vision are brought together.

Benefits of Learning organization –

One of the most benefits of being a learning organization offers may be a competitive advantage. This competitive advantage can be established on distinctive methodologies, which can be obtained through organizational learning. One way of picking up a competitive advantage is key adaptability.

·         Maintaining levels of innovation and remaining competitive

·         Improved efficiency

·         Having the knowledge to better link resources to customer needs

·         Improving quality of outputs at all levels

·         Improving corporate image by becoming more people-oriented

·         Increasing the pace of change within the organization

·         Strengthening sense of community in the organization

·         Improving long term decision making

·         Improving knowledge sharing

There are three steps managers can promote their organizational learning,

1. Create Knowledge -

They can do this by conducting surveys, performing market analyses, networking with colleagues in their industry and studying competitors.

2. Retain the knowledge –

Many companies achieve this goal by using an intranet. 

3. Transfer the knowledge (knowledge sharing) –

The knowledge must be transferred out of the individual community and into the organizational community as a whole. Using training methods, written articles share online.

References :-

https://www.toolshero.com/management/five-disciplines-learning-organizations/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_organization  

https://www.zenefits.com/workest/what-is-organizational-learning/