How Organizational Culture Influences Building a Learning Organization
Contemporary organizations more and more often see human resources as their most valuable asset. This is why they create wide range of opportunities to help them to develop. Such approach is aimed at increasing involvement, higher effectiveness, innovativeness and thus constant improvement of competitiveness, which is not possible without employee constant learning and their self actualization. In this way the learning process is stressed as essential element of every modern company. As a result of this thinking one of the key tasks for a company is to create proper environment, which generates and spreads knowledge. This is where organizational culture proves very useful. The main objective of this article is to demonstrate how organizational culture influences on building learning organizations. The content has been drawn up based upon literature study as well as in depth interview conducted with the computer programmer working for Google, Ireland.