Week Five - Jeff

Learning Organization Scores Summary

It is found that as a learning organization, my organization is weak in nurturing the learning environment and process. As I mentioned over the past few weeks, my organization is at the beginning stage of developing as a learning organization and actually going through quite a tough time – it tries to make a significant change from a traditional education organization that lets students learn to a recognized educational institution that learns from others. It is no wonder why the learning environment is not strong. Environment is hard to change as it is a cultural matter.

 

Concrete Learning Processes and Practices

Compared to other teammates’ scores in this part, my organization is in lower quartile. However, looking at the background of my organization, I think the scores are acceptable in this part. Particularly, the information collection and transfer have been improved through better information management (such as the works done for the department by me!). However, experimentation, and education and training that require lots of efforts and resources are something that cannot be improved shortly. With more teaching and learning activities and implementation of outcome-based teaching and learning in the organization, it is expected that both areas would soon be achieved successfully.

Supportive Learning Environment

The scores in this part are very low as expected because the scores reflect the actual situations facing the organization and the environment where the organization is at. Whenever an order is made by the management, it has to be supported by the people. Unfortunately, the long established traditional value rooted in my organization creates resistant forces for openness to new ideas and reluctance to appreciation of differences. As my organization has just begun providing learning opportunities to staff, this new concept will take a long time to digest by everyone until everyone gets used to it.