Organizational Learning & Managinig Change

Summary  (Organizational Learning)

As humans we are in a constant search for knowledge, and so are the organizations in order to improve themselves and be more competitive.

In an organization all kind of knowledge useful to accomplish any given task is called “Know How”, this could be the right of some product, any kind of thechnological innovation, strategies and so; all of these become an asset to the company and gives it a differentiation and an advantage before their competitors.

Organizations must be acquiring through time, more and more knowledge in order to survive in a competitive market, to avoid any kind of uncertainty, fulfill customer’s expectations and keeping up with the trends of globalization.

Most of the times this knowledge is acquired through one person who masters the subject and then shares it with the others in order to apply it in the process that is being developed by the group of work. 

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Topic Question

What is the relationship between organizational learning and individual satisfaction?   

-When an organization gains knowledge, the processes or tasks it must perform, become more efficient and useful for the organization and if this kind of knowledge helps in the end to perform an efficient task, ultimately the individuals that form the organization and were a part of the process, gain a satisfaction of a well done task.

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Summary (Managing Change)

In order to success in the corporate world, organizations must be constantly changing and improving.

There are some changes that result from the decision of the organization but also exist some changes that are unforeseen and must be done as fast as possible to keep improving and avoid having a bigger problem in the future.

But most of these changes need a “spark” to ignite them; this person is called a change agent and is the one who is in charge of introducing them to the whole organization and explain how to make it happen.

The general structure of a change consist in three basic steps; the first one, unfreezing, consist on a disruption on the status quo in the organization and create the proper conditions to allow a change; the second one, is the change, where the organization rearranges and brings out resources to make it happen, finally the refreezing stage, in which the changes are already implemented and embedded to the company’s regular functions. 

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Topic Question

Is it possible to change corporate culture? If so, how?

-Anything in this world can be a subject of change, specially the way someone or something act; corporate culture has been changing throughout the years and it will keep doing so, but the issue regarding this change is that most of the times it has been boosted by only an economical factor; nowadays we live in a society whose moral and ethical values are fading away and in addition because of our reckless act we are destroying the place we live in, so the corporations being the most “powerful” and influential entities must help to do this, and to perform it an internal perspective and way of thinking must change within them.