The first characteristic is looking in. It involves reward flexibility and internal exchange. Reward flexibility is the ability of the organisation to deliver flexible rewards to staff in an open and public manner. This also includes the opportunity for staff to question the rewards themselves and how they are distributed. Internal exchange involves all internal departments and units collaborating with each other by exchanging information about their expectations, needs, successes and weaknesses as well as providing clearly negotiated request and feedbacks to each other.
The second characteristic is looking out. It involves boundary workers as environmental scanners ? all employees who work on the boundary of the organisation (from receptionist to research and development staff) obtain information from both formal and informal sources to feed into the organisation’s knowledge base. It also involves inter-company learning which collaborative working and networking promotes the learning ethos and offers other sources of knowledge and learning. Initiatives may include joint training, exchanges and benchmarking.
Strategy is one of the characteristics in Learning Organisation. There is approach to learning strategy- policy and strategy are developed as a learning process, which involves research as well as review. Participative policy making enables all organisation members and stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers and owners to contribute to major policy decisions. Strategy also involves informating and formative accounting and control. Informating involves the use of information technology as a tool, which opens access to information and access to the organisation system. Formative accounting and control enables the accounting, budgeting systems and reporti ...