The idea of the learning organisation is one which has captured the imagination of trainers and a whole host of others. Organisational learning means the process of improving actions through better knowledge acquisition, clearer understanding and improved performance. It is a method of detecting and correcting errors. A learning organisation is not just an organisation which carries out extensive training but rather an organisation which facilitates the learning of all it's members and continuously evolves itself. Thus a learning organisation could be defined as "an organisation that learns and encourages learning among its people. It promotes exchange of information between employees hence creating a more knowledgeable workforce. This produces a very flexible organisation where people will accept and adapt to new ideas and changes through a shared vision.".
The idea of the learning organisation is based on three main issues which are referred to as the 3 M's:.
-Meaning: here the organisation needs to pocess the well grounded definition, it must be actionable and easy to apply.
-Management: here the organisation needs to have clearer guidelines for practice, filed with operational advice as to high aspirations also shows evidence of learning in a double-loop manner, systematic problem solving, experimentation and internal information transfer.
-Measurement: better tools for accessing an organisation rate and level of learning to ensure that gains have infact been acquired, it should also pocess mechanisms which access the rate and level of learning.
A learning organisation is not merely an organisational system, it is an active philosophy; it believes that it's only competitive advantage is it's ability to learn; it encourages people to learn to produce results which they desire; it nutures creative and innovative patterns of collective learning; it develops fresh organisational capabilities all the time.