Learning Organizations and Value Creation
Review the 6 key elements of a learning organization (Ch. 11 of Strategic Management, by Dess).
1) Inspiring and motivating people with a mission or purpose
2) Developing leaders
3) Empowering employees
4) Accumulating and sharing internal knowledge
5) Gathering and integrating external information
6) Challenging the status quo and enabling creativity
Complete the table below. Evaluate the extent to which the company you’ve selected to assess in this course epitomizes each of the 6 elements.
Justify your determination with examples.
| Learning Organization Element | Extent to which the company epitomizes this element | Provide a sentence justifying your determination | ||
| High | Medium | Low | ||
| Example | x | [This] is why I believe it is medium. | ||
| Inspiring and motivating people with a mission or purpose | ||||
| Developing leaders | ||||
| Empowering employees | ||||
| Accumulating and sharing internal knowledge | ||||
| Gathering and integrating external information | ||||
| Challenging the status quo and enabling creativity | ||||
| Recommend at least 1 step the organization’s leaders could take to enhance 1 of the elements and explain how that could help the organization create more value. | ||||
Complete the table below and evaluate the extent to which the company you’ve selected to assess in this course epitomizes each of the 6 elements.
