MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 77: Learning Organization, Perceived Control, Psychological Resilience

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 500
• Professor: Ronda Smith

Document Summary

Another way organizations can proactively manage change is making a learning organization and making continuous growth part of its culture. A learning organization has created the capacity to continuously adapt and change. The dimensions of the learning organization questionnaire has been internationally adopted and adapted to assess the degree of commitment to learning principles of an organization. Learning organizations are a fix for three problems of traditional organizations: Fragmentation is based on specialization and creates walls to separate different functions into independent fiefdoms. Managers will compete over who is actually right, who knows the most, or who is the most persuasive. Divisions compete when they should cooperate together and share their knowledge. Team leaders compete to show who the best manager is here, too. Reactiveness misdirects the attentions of management to solve problems rather than creating them. Problem solvers try to make something go away, and creators try to bring something new into fruition.