Article Review
Silvia Arambula
MGT 426
December 7, 2015
Robert Sell

Article Review
Learning Organization is an organization that acquires knowledge and innovates fast enough to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing environment. Learning organizations (1) create a culture that encourages and supports continuous employee learning, critical thinking, and risk taking with new ideas, (2) allow mistakes, and value employee contributions, (3) learn from experience and experiment, and (4) disseminate the new knowledge throughout the organization for incorporation into day-to-day activities (BusinessDictionary.com, 2014). The main difference is that organizational learning has focused on observation and analysis of the processes of individual and collective learning within organizations, whereas the literature on learning organizations is action oriented and geared towards applying specific diagnostic and evaluative methodological tools that can contribute to identifying, promoting and assessing the quality of learning processes in the organization (Wathne, 2012).
Article Summary There are many significant factors of an efficacious business organization at the currently evolving, shifting and vigorous global business setting, one of these significant factors are organizational learning and institutionalization of the learning organization. It is worth taking that one of the crucial components of an organization is its employees and the commitment and loyalty of its employees. The article by Wathne (2012) it focused on a study of decisions to prosecute sent to the local police districts from the Norwegian Bureau for the Investigation of Police Affairs (the body responsible for investigating charges against the police), this paper analyses to what extent the police are a learning organization. The paper concludes that the Norwegian police have some local “learning systems” that work well, but lack a comprehensive strategy and a well-functioning system for overall organizational learning, thus leaving experiential learning to chance.
Author’s Conclusion/ Recommendation According to the author of the article that has been reviewed, showed that one of the most vital and effective factors in every organization shifting to a learning organization is the organizational commitment. Commitment in an organization enables the employees to accommodate the execution of the learning organization, and better be administered because employees are more open to new environment and ideas. The particular responsibility of the leadership for the organization’s ability and liberty to ask fundamental questions about dominant values and norms must be seen in relation to the fact that an important part of the employer’s responsibility in the police concerns planning for and implementing good systems, and not just in the most serious cases (Wathne, 2012). In the evaluation of the Bureau it was found that its decisions are a useful starting point for experiential learning and that the detailed reasons for its decisions mean that the decisions to prosecute are a unique knowledge base of experience (Wathne, 2012).
Reviewers Conclusion/ Recommendation
As results have implied, the managerial level who likes to build a learning organization has the capacity to grant employees the means for commitment to the organization. By doing so, the job performance of the employees and their development aid the management to transform the organization into a desired learning organization. However, leaders and leadership is an underexplored field within the criminal field. Also, by having a learning organization, the employees are encouraged to offer their full commitment to the organization. It is therefore important to get the commitment of the employees who are vital to the success of building a learning organization so that there can be a learning environment that can easily be administered. The results that have been exhibited in this article should be noted by any organization using any kind of business model. In these presently evolving global markets, there is nothing but one option of accommodating change and remain steadfast by being inventive and competitive. In order to accomplish this, it is essential to create a learning organization which is devoted and willing to accept such changes. Having a learning environment means having the full commitment of the employees in the entire organization.
How these Concepts Apply to the Reviewers Organization
The concepts and ideas that have been mentioned in this article can be applied to any organizations in different manners. The organization I am currently employed is in lined with the fast food industry. In some instances where higher ups and leaders in higher positions may lack leadership roles and when changes occur they have no clue as to how to communicate those changes with the employees effectively. Another noticeably variable that is absent is the capability of the organization to shift effectively in meeting the demands of the customers. This work setting is a role model of not having a learning organization. In this work setting, the opinions and ideas of the employees which may be relevant to the betterment of the organization are being ignored and not recognized

References
BusinessDictionary.com. (2014). Retrieved from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/learning-organization.html

Christin Thea Wathne, (2012),"The Norwegian Police Force: a learning organization?", Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, Vol. 35 Iss 4 pp. 704 – 722 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13639511211275535