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Learning organisation

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, learning organisation means: An organisation that deliberately supports collective learning and uses it to adapt its practices.

In Turkish: öğrenen örgüt

How it is used

Use for learning built into everyday systems and culture, not merely an employer with many training courses.

Example sentences

  1. As a learning organisation, the cooperative shared failed experiments across all its branches.

    Experience becomes available beyond the team that originally gained it.

  2. The director wanted a learning organisation where questioning routines was part of normal work.

    Learning is treated as a regular organisational practice rather than an occasional event.

Common collocations

  • build a learning organisation
  • learning organisation culture
  • psychological safetyA shared belief within a team that people can speak up, ask questions, admit mistakes or disagree without being punished or embarrassed.
  • change managementThe planned way an organisation prepares, supports and guides people through a major change, such as a new system or a merger, so that the change is accepted and lasts.

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