Organisational Change

10.2.1 Adaptive and Generative Learning

Learning organisations also need to differentiate between adaptive and generative learning. Adaptive learning is concerned with adapting to environmental changes and improving the organisation's capacity to achieve known objectives in a reactive manner.

Generative learning goes beyond just adapting to change in a reactive mode. It involves creativity and innovation, anticipation of change, staying ahead of competition, and change in a proactive mode. Generative learning involves a creative reframing of an organisation's problems and experiences. It involves formulation of and experimentation with novel approaches to problem-solving and decision-making, and learning from those processes. It involves openness ...