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Single-loop learning

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, single-loop learning means: Correcting actions to meet existing goals while leaving the underlying assumptions and governing rules unchanged.

In Turkish: tek döngülü öğrenme

How it is used

Use when a team improves how it follows a rule rather than questioning whether the rule is appropriate.

Example sentences

  1. Single-loop learning led the team to send reminders earlier without changing the approval policy.

    The action changes while the governing policy remains accepted.

  2. The factory used single-loop learning to bring output back within its existing targets.

    Correction aims to restore expected performance within the existing framework.

Common collocations

  • single-loop learning process
  • single-loop and double-loop learning
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done a piece of work or behaved, given so that they can keep doing what works and improve what does not.
  • targetA specific number, level or result that a person or team is expected to reach within a set time, such as a sales figure or a cost limit.

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