Organizational Learning, recognized since 1990 as a new and ground-breaking strategic approach and management method differing from Taylorism, is
- the continuously expanding capacity of an organization to create its future
- the competence of an organization for fundamental innovation and change.
The synonymous term for Organizational Learning is Knowledge-Creation.
According to recent research, Organizational Learning is improved by the following six competencies and activities:
- Building shared vision
- Communicating in meetings as to create knowledge
- Holding one's creative tension
- Identifying the patterns that control events
- Investigating the prevailing mental models together
- Testing and experimenting