Fernando's Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition

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4. Learning organizations: By denition, learning organizations refer to agencies whose

employees, on an on-going basis, attempt to learn new things and apply this learning to

improve product or service quality. Key features of a learning organization are: employ-

ees share learning with one another; the existence or creation of procedures for gaining

and sharing knowledge; employees being encouraged to think critically and to test their

assumptions in the organizational environment; a system of rewards existing within the

organization and supported by the management as employees ...