Towards a Learning Organization Learning How to Learn: A Key Competence for Sustainable Employment
Keywords:
Learning How to Learn, Employability, Learning OrganizationAbstract
Uncertainty is one of the challenges in the current scenario of changes in organizations exerting its impact to create linkage between work and learning. Such forces of pressure led to constant demand changes in skillsets for today and tomorrow’s future of work. Employability which was thought to be critical for graduates and the unemployed are becoming crucial to everyone nowadays in dealing with the changing dynamics in the workplace. This calls for the urgency of a better understanding of how to work with the learner in a non-traditional context. Thus, not only organizations are changing their learning objectives but the education policies are now including learning how to learn or learning to learn skills into their national curricula to provide skills that could help people thrive through changes. This article demonstrates that learning how to learn or learning to learn, has become the key competence to employability in learning organizations where it imposes positive impacts on personal development towards lifelong learning. The total rewards framework was used to analyze the satisfaction of provided rewards in an attempt to make recommendations for organizations to strive towards becoming learning organizations. Results from 250 companies found that satisfaction of learning and development dimension ranked the lowest for satisfaction out of the four dimensions of; Pay, Benefits, Learning & Development, Work Environment. The article concludes with a discussion of suggestions on improvements in areas of L&D and future research to build on the conceptual development for integrating learning how to learn for sustainable employment. Thus, knowing how to learn is a set of employability competence that constitute as necessary for the gaining of employment and supporting people to stay in work and advance.
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