Organizational Learning, Learning Organization, and its effects upon Productivity

Learning organization is an organization that constantly extends its capacities for its future creativity. This phenomenon has been introduced during last 20 years and its aim is to enable organizations’ managers and employees to resist to turbulent commercial environments and organizational competitive superiority and dynamism. in these organizations, delegation of authority, group and team work, and cooperative management, innovation and creativity, and other clear characteristics are emphasized, which have been discussed in this article in details. Another important concept dealing with learning organization is organizational learning. Organizational learning is a process of performances’ improvement through more knowledge and understanding. Learning organization is the product of organization learning.

In present study, in addition to an introduction of learning organization, different definitions of learning organization and organizational learning, differences and various dimensions for each, characteristics of learning organization, and model learning are discussed and finally the relation between learning organization and productivity is mentioned.