DIFFICULTIES OF CREATING LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

Year 2014, Issue: 12, - , 20.04.2015

Gürcan Avcı

Abstract

Seeing the Lake Van monster2 and talking about it can be very popular everywhere. People can also search about its origin, even if it is impossible. Like that, people can know by heart everything about learning organization. Even though they identify how to solve organizational problems with concept of learning organization, a lot of barriers, which is sourced from internal or external factors, may preclude implementation of the learning principles properly or another word ‘victory’. This research has tried to explain what kinds of factors cause to this problem through the concept of amnesia. Besides it will at-tempt finding reasons which cause to a total blank in the organization. Finally this study has emphasized the importance of the role of the leader and leadership with the others organizational concept like struc-ture, organizational culture.

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