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Organizational Learning and Learning Organization have been a major focus within various organizations since the 1990’s. The objective of this paper is to compare and contrast both concepts by identifying the framework that will provide a basis for organizations to promote and encourage continuous learning. Many organizations aim to be a learning organization however, the quality of organizational learning largely depends on the context presented within an organization and if it facilitates or inhibits learning. Organizational learning and learning organization requires the existence of learning mechanisms that will produce an environment conducive to learning. This paper will describe the facets and relationship between the two concepts, and also define and evaluate the writings of scholarly organizational learning literature reviews that both support and criticize organizational learning and learning organization modules.
The following scholarly literary review demonstrates the comparison and contrast of organizational learning and learning organization. Research article by Peter Senge (1990) in his book “The Fifth Discipline” defined that learning organization relates to remaining competitive, past and present experiences, understanding the complexities, having a basis of knowledge, and learning through synergy that promotes team learning. Senge fifth discipline included system thinking, personal mastery, mental model, shared vision, and team learning, all of which promoted working as a team within an organization placing emphasis on the vision of and objectives of the organization. Although Senge five disciplines were focused on the way an organization learns, Christ Argyrist and Donal Schon (1978) defined organizational learning as three types of learning: 1) single-loop learning which is a lower level of learning that focuses on changing theories without changing strategies and actions, 2) double-loop learning that is a higher level of learning that...