Individual Differences In Organizational Learning

Introduction

“Mistakes increase your experience and experience decrease your mistakes. If you learn from your mistakes then others learn from your success.” (APJ. Abdul Kalam) As cited in

( ) “Organizational Learning is as the ability of an organization to gain insight and understanding from experience through experimentation, observation, analysis, and a willingness to examine both successes and failures (Smith, 2001). Individual and collective learning are key concepts in organizational learning. The most genuine component of organizational learning is learning from experience, this component is common for all approaches of organizational learning.” According to this, in a school staffs learn through mistakes,

236). Furthermore he stated that team learning is important because teams, not individuals, are the fundamental unit in modern organizations. This is where “the rubber meets the road” unless the team can learn, the organization cannot learn. (Senge, 1990, p.10) Organizational learning can be achieved when staffs work as a team, as a result the shared vision and personal mastery will become better. . Individuals of the organization must start to speak up their mind so that other people can give their opinion and start a discussion in order to start a team learning. This will help to achieve an insight which might not be achieved by thinking individually. "As people talk, the vision grows clearer. As it gets clearer, enthusiasm for its benefits build.”(Senge, 1990,

Nevertheless, there should be proper plans and policies for implementing organizational change. “Organization face a dilemma with respect to plan change. Organization desire change in order to remain competitive. To adopt more effective and efficient means of operation and to remain harmony with their environments.” (Hodge. B.J, 2003, p.329). Likewise, small changes in the systems, for example schools, very often have complex and unforeseen effects. Perhaps, an apparently direct change from marks and grade letter student report cards have changed to more detailed reports on student competencies that may have numerous difficulties. When this change was introduced for the first time, parents were not willing to accept it. And most of them threw their children report cards saying that what is written on the report card is useless and they know nothing. They were very much against as they were practicing marks and grade letter report cards for several