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Question 10:
Define the Learning Organization. What are the main arguments against the
Learning Organization?
Against learning;
- bureaucratic organizations are rational and predictable (learning provides a
unpredictable/foreseeable way of doing things which the management may not
want to face)
- a way of pursuing particular agendas and is an exercise of power (For example:
the management wants to acquire more ideas/knowledge in improving the
production line or etc)
- Employees have to cope with constant changes, uncertainties, break out from
routine as to improvise new knowledge of doing things
- Individuals of the organization are subjected to self responsibility of the learning
process
Examples:
A particular company/organization have implement a new system and wish to seek
more voices or options in regards to the add flaws of the new system. The
management is over flooded with comments and critics of the new system which they
need to process and address. The employees take this opportunity to comment on the
change of using another system to doing things and needs to attend training seminars
which will disrupt their work quality. The management may not address most of the
flaws of the system unless it will disrupt the quantity of work produced.