Learning Organizations and Value Creation
Review the 6 key elements of a learning organization (Ch. 11 of Strategic Management, by Dess).

Complete the table below. Evaluate the extent to which the company you’ve selected to assess in this course epitomizes each of the 6 elements.

Justify your determination with examples.

Learning Organization Element

Extent to which the company epitomizes this element

Provide a sentence justifying your determination

High

Medium

Low

Example

x

[This] is why I believe it is medium.

Inspiring and motivating people with a mission or purpose

Developing leaders

Empowering employees

Accumulating and sharing internal knowledge

Gathering and integrating external information

Challenging the status quo and enabling creativity

Recommend at least 1 step the organization’s leaders could take to enhance 1 of the elements and explain how that could help the organization create more value.