Organizational Culture and Learning: Organizational Culture and Learning

What is organizational culture? What is organizational learning? How do organizations learn effectively and change their culture? A learning organization is skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge (Garvin, 1993). According to Ray Stata, Chairman of Analog Devices, "The rate at which individuals and organizations learn may become the only sustainable competitive advantage." However we defiine and prioritize organizational learning, we must still struggle with how to do it.  This is a tougher question. The thesis of this seminar is that an enriched understanding of culture can enhance organization learning. Participants will explore the concept of culture, study the work of Chris Argyris, and discover practices and behaviors that promote organization learning and culture change. The objective of this seminar is to help participants get beyond highly abstract philosophy and develop a deeper understanding and useful skills based on these concepts.