Building the Learning Organization

Abstract

In the corporate world, the behaviors of a firm's past are important, but not to the point of forgetting the future and its new lessons. Followers of the behaviorist school speak of "incremental learning" [1] which consists of not forgetting the behaviors of the past, but updating them by new lessons learned from new experiences. We see it as a way of initiating the organization to seize the learning opportunities available to it on an ongoing basis, so that it becomes a learning organization. For many companies, they don't know how to become a learner. Even worse, they don't even know they can learn. In our present article, first, we will explain in detail the concept of the learning firm. Afterwards, we will present the process to become a learning company. And finally, we will expose the prerequisites that a company must have to become a learner. Our modest article is a first step in building the learning company