IS THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION A FASHION, A MANAGEMENT MODEL, A GOVERNMENT PRACTICE?
Abstract
Learning organization (Senge, 1993); can be determined as, employees to create new knowledge, to share it, to make this information into the organization's knowledge and to solve the problem is expressed as the basis. The purpose of this study is to criticize whether learning organizations have a management model or a fashion of management. The notion of learning organization has started to gain importance especially after the organization theorists have frequently emphasized since the late 1980s. After the mid-1990s, Information Management became popular and became widespread. In this respect, the ambiguity of the relationship between the information processing approach and the learning organization is noteworthy. After all, businesses that cannot collect information from their environment, do not create information, process them or convert them into specific decisions or fail to do so quickly are losing their ties with their environment and losing their harmony with their environment. This study is a qualitative research. In this study, the concept of learning organizations has been critical through secondary data collected through document analysis. All documents and publications used in the research are secondary data sources obtained by literature scanning technique. In the interpretation of the information, especially technical issues were not taken into consideration considering the purpose of the study. Those who can do this can continue their activities successfully in adaptation. As a result of this study, the historical adventure of stated that organizations can change their behavior and enable them to survive. In this sense, it is advisable to do this with the learning organization. In this study, besides being a fashion term learning organizations and its development as a concept are explained with an eclectic perspective. Essentially, all of the adaptation theories and methods are focused on, but it is for learning organizations, the effects and benefits of organizations on their way of doing business are explained.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
Business Administration
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Murat Şengöz
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0000-0001-6597-0161
Türkiye
Publication Date
June 30, 2020
Submission Date
March 24, 2020
Acceptance Date
June 24, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 2 Number: 1