Organisational Change

10.8 BASIS OF LEARNING APPROACH IN AN ORGANISATION

Purposive, fast-paced, and continuous learning provides the overarching approach of a learning organisation for coping with change. Within the framework of this approach, certain salient elements or bases of the approach may, however, be distinguished. These elements, or bases, serve to elucidate the relatively distinctive nature and rationale of a learning organisation's approach towards facing and coping with change. These elements are not objects, or activities. They are primarily mental orientations, or cognitive anchors, defining the mindset of the members of a learning enterprise. They may be listed (in a non-ordered manner) as follows (Fig. 10.8).

 

Fig. 10.8 The basic elements of learning ...