Abstract:

The present research tries to study the concept and characteristics of learning organizations, based on Peter Senge’s original model ‘The Fifth Discipline’ (personal mastery, shared vision, mental model, team learning and system thinking) in Pakistan’s private and public sectors. This explanatory study is conducted to determine the structural relationship of learning organization and its dimensions with job performance and creativity. In order to conduct this correlational study, the primary data have been collected by distributing questionnaires to employees in 5 public and private organizations of Pakistan and after primary data collection, the researchers performed parametric testing via regression analysis and inter-correlational matrix. Our statistical analysis results have proved that there is a highly significant relationship between learning organization and its dimensions, having a direct and positive relationship with job performance and creativity. The idea of learning organization has increased acceptance in private and public sectors and popular researches on this issue are on the relationship of learning organization with its ultimate consequences, such as increased creativity, increased job performance, increased capacity, increased innovation, increased productivity and increased higher competitive advantage for organizations. Nevertheless, many researchers have conducted the said research in the private sectors but paid little attention towards public sectors of Pakistan. This research is aimed to fill the gap by introducing and discussing the concept of learning organizations which demonstrate the relevant steps in transforming private and public organizations into learning organizations.

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