THE LEARNING ORGANISATION (五)

ACCA P3考試：THE LEARNING ORGANISATION

SUSTAINABLE LEARNING

Organisations as enterprises need sustainability across multiple areas. Sustainable learning leads to increased competitiveness, better resource usage, increased innovation and a sustainable position in the marketplace, and an ability to survive in the dynamic markets and chaotic macro and microenvironments in which business has to operate.

Enterprise learning is ultimately totally reliant on the people that are in the organisation; the organisation itself cannot learn. The people inside the organisation, and their capacity, facilitate organisational learning. There is a significant risk in an organisation that does not form a learning culture and environment that does not establish learning systems and processes. The risk of not being a learning organisation is stagnation or elimination. Organisations risk losing the right people, which results in a drain on the learning and knowledge on which the organisation currently relies. A learning organisation is a sustainable enterprise.

Fearghal McHugh lectures on ACCA Qualification Papers P3 and P1

References

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Biblography

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