Learning Organization By David A. Garvin

Introduction
A company needs to improve continuously to grow and many organizations strive to better themselves to gain an edge in the market. Although many companies try to improve continuously, they fail to achieve their motive because they are not committed to learning. When there is no significant learning in the company, they tend to repeat the old practices and the change in improvements are temporary or short-lived. In order to grow as a company, one needs to build a Learning Organization and the author David A. Garvin has written as for how every company can turn into a learning organization. David A. Garvin is a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research interests lie in organizational thinking, business and management process, and design of large, complex …show more content…
Although it is rapidly changing businesses in semiconductor and consumer electronics industry, he believes that a large part still remains dark, questionable and is difficult to enter. The author believes that one the reason for the problem is because of the Scholars in the company who set idealistic targets with heavy jargons. In order to define what a Learning organization is, the author brings in the description by Peter Senge and Nonaka. From the above two mentioned names, it is evident that Learning organization is a place where people constantly expand their knowledge, their thinking patterns and continuously learn together. Also, inventing new knowledge should be a part of a daily activity at work. At this point of time, the major problem a company was facing was a lack of a framework where every employee could follow to become a learning organization. A sort of a policy or a program to get to the next