The knowledge economy has brought learning outcomes and processes to the centre of organizational activity. However, traditional business organizations are not naturally conducive to authentic learning – a condition which is likely to undermine, in the long run, efficiency advantages gained in...

Knowledge management (KM) attracts more and more attention nowadays in either research or practice. Organisations often spend a lot of time and money to launch strategic KM initiatives without first assessing whether or not their culture is ready for the implementation of such initiatives. If...

Particularly this report defines the strategic aspects of the KAO Corporation in Japan. The KAO Corporation is one of the leading consumer product providers in the Japanese market. Though the company exists in the FMCG industry, it can be stated that the company has attained a competitive...

This paper addresses a gap in the literature concerning suitability of organizational learning approaches in facing social responsibility challenges, and proposes a developed framework that could proactively bridge this gap. A new framework is designed in order to gain insight on the...

The article presents certain ways of understanding a learning organization and its characteristic features. It also contains the results of a study of twenty-seven Polish enterprises facilitating diagnosis of their learning ability. It has been shown that learning ability is connected with the...

Only a Learning Organization (LO) will be capable of taking on the modern day challenges and to move ahead in this highly dynamic and completive world. An LO is a consciously managed organization having learning as a vital component in its values, visions and goals, and in everyday operations....

A learning organization is a place where people in the organization are powerfully learning collectively and by their own to expand their knowledge and skills so that they can enhance and optimize their organizational performance at the maximum. This paper reviews the literature that leads to...

This paper describes how knowledge is created and transferred in organizations. It also discuses conditions required in promoting knowledge creation, the techniques used to capture knowledge in organizations, the nature of learning organizations and how it can influence knowledge creation and...

To become more competitive, the SMEs in our study should encourage learning at all the organizational levels, meaning becoming learning organizations. The lifelong learning has become a vital necessity of the contemporary society, it is a theoretical principle and it acts to describe a specific...