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Successful organizations thrive when people learn from experience, share lessons, and apply them to improve. Learning is not neutral—it’s shaped by power, values, and context. Real organizational growth comes from empowered, informed individuals.

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Motivation, values, roles (insiders/outsiders, leaders/followers), and informal groups shape learning. Everyone can learn and teach—knowledge isn’t exclusive to experts.

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Clear, honest, and open communication enhances learning. Misinformation or information hoarding undermines learning. Organizational culture must support shared knowledge and collaboration.

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Learning varies by organization type, size, hierarchy, and processes. Professional and decentralized organizations tend to learn more. Goals, capacity, and communication quality also affect learning.

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Power distribution impacts learning. External and internal politics determine what information is shared, how it's used, and which lessons are accepted or ignored. Politics influences every organizational interaction.

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Key factors include external pressures (competitors, regulations), political considerations, and organizational structure. Democratic organizations that allow participation learn more effectively.

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Learning is the transformation of experience (Kolb). Though organizations as abstract entities don’t learn, individuals within them do. Some argue that organizational learning is the sum of individual learning shared among members.

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Learning is essential for success. Factors influencing it include external pressures, politics, organizational characteristics, actors’ roles, and evaluation practices. Learning means transforming experience into knowledge.

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A successful organization endures over time, values human talent above economic or political interests, practices ethics, cares for the environment, uses technology effectively (not just owning it), and learns from its experiences.

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Organizations are broader than companies. While companies are profit-oriented, organizations include formal, informal, and voluntary entities, including NGOs, unions, churches, and the military. They are the subject of administrative studies and have diverse management practices based on their nature.