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This 16 page paper considers the statement that "the learning organization is the loch ness monster of modern management much discussed and sought after but very rarely seen”. This paper considers what a company has to do to be classified as a learning organization and why this is so difficult to achieve. The paper then looks at different companies that may be seen as moving in that direction to assess if the status of learning organization has, or can ever be claimed. Companies considered are VISA, Boeing and Shell. The bibliography cites 17 sources.
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proof. However, this has not reduced the belief in the monster, books are still written sightings claimed and an entire tourist industry is based on the belief that the monster,
does, or at least might, exist. It is human nature to believe in what we want to believe in rather than what can or cannot be proven.
The same is true when looking at the commercial world as seen with theories or irrational exuberance. There is always the desire to finds
way to improve the way that business is undertaken. The theories may lead the way to better practices but achieving the goal to which they attain may be unreachable, the
attempt may give results of improvement which are mistaken for reaching the goal. The concept of the learning organisation may be such an idea.
Just like the Loch Ness Monster the learning organisation may gain from the search and not from the realisation of the final goal. The inability to find
or prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster has not prevented the search, just as the inability to pinpoint a organisation that embodies all of the characteristics of a
learning organisation has not prevented the continual attempts to create that organisation. 2. The Recognisable Characteristics of the Learning Organisation. If we
look at the concepts of the learning organisation, as originally put forward by Peter Senge we can start to consider why the concept is idealistic rather than one that can
be attained. Within the model there are numerous barriers which prevent the attainment of the learning organisation to become a reality. The idea of the learning organisation is one which
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