Five Elements For Learning Organization

The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice for learning organization is a book by Peter Senge that focuses on problem solving using the systematic collective thinking method to transform companies into learning organization.

Peter Senge American scholar, teacher and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT Sloan School of Managemen is known as the author of The Fifth Discipline (1990) and founder of five disciplines for learning organizations. He also developed with Chris Argyris the Inference Ladder, a powerful decision-making tool.

The Five Elements of the Learning Organization:

1- Personal Mastery: It is an area of ​​continuous clarification and deepening of our personal vision, focusing our energies, developing our patience, and seeing the reality objectively.

2- Mental Models: are deep-seated hypotheses, generalizations, or even images of perceptions that affect how we understand the world and how we take action.

3- Building Shared Vision: Vision must be created through interaction with employees in the organization.

4- Team Learning: dialogue, and the ability of team members to suspend assumptions and engage in real thinking and create a learning environment instead of competition.

5- Systems Thinking: shifting the focus from individual problems, to the control of the entire system.

Companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix have become learning organizations able to keep up with and understand the changes in the external environment and to make the change required before it is too late and based on successful continuous learning and development.

Applying learning organization need strategic human resources that have specialists who lead the process of becoming a well-educated organization. Strategic HR is the central computer that obtain, analyze and process information about the internal and external organization environment, resources, talents, competencies, challenges and other strategic important field to provide decision makers with added value information to achieve organization strategy, objectives and vision, by leveraging on knowledge and continues learning.