Elements of The Learning Company:
- Learning approach to strategy
- Participative policy making
- Informating
- Formative
- Internal change
- Reward flexibility
- Enabling structures
- Boundary workers as environmental scanners
- Inter-company learning
Principle:
Comprehensive approach with 11 features common in learning organisations
Issues:
- Learning approach to strategy -> enabling continuous improvement based on experience
- Participative policy making -> involving all members of the organisation
- Information -> by using information technology to inform and empower people
- Formative -> and control to assist learning and add value within the organisation
- Internal change -> in which all internal units and departments see themselves as customers and suppliers in a partly regulated collaborative market economy
- Reward flexibility -> that challenges previously unstated, hidden and unrecognised assumptions that govern the way people are rewarded
- Enabling structures -> to create an organisational architecture to meet current needs while providing the scope for responding to future change
- Boundary workers as environmental scanners -> involving all employees interacting with customers, suppliers, channels and even competitors
- Inter-company learning -> through mutually advantageous activities between departments and divisions, with suppliers and those in the distribution channel
- Inter-company learning -> and culture fostered by managers facilitating experimentation and learning from experience aimed at continuous improvement
- Self-development for all -> where people are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning and development
Applications:
To analyse if an organisation can anticipate change and make sense of chaos to respond
Source of The Learning Company:
(Pedler, Boydell & Borgoyne, 1991)