learning organization


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learning organization

an organization in which paramount importance is attached to the capacity for employees to learn from organizational events and developments in the external environment. Employees are encouraged to respond creatively to this learning. Systems for exchanging information are of great importance in such organizations.
Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson
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Our operational view is that a KMS creates the organizational framework for its workforce to learn and compete, and it is these additional characteristics, suggested by Liebowitz, that characterize the learning organization.
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