What is Organization Study?

It is the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization. An organization improves over time as it gains experience. From this experience, it is able to create knowledge. This knowledge is broad, covering any topic that could better an organization. Examples may include ways to increase production efficiency or to develop beneficial investor relations. Knowledge is created at four different units: individual, group, organizational, and inter organizational.

Organization study happens as a function of experience within an organization and allows the organization to stay competitive in an ever-changing environment. Organizational learning is a process improvement that can increase efficiency, accuracy, and profits.

Knowledge is a critical source for various organizations in recent years within competitive context of business. Organizational study as a strategic tool has been proposed in the field of modern management for gaining competitive advantage and stabilizing organizational success. The aim of learning is not only enhancing employee’s knowledge and skills but also developing and growth of the organization and building flexible dynamic learning organization. 

The strategic role of organizational study in establishing knowledge management and promoting the main goals of organization, the present paper attempted to review the representative literature pertinent to learning, organizational study, its main objectives, barriers, and benefits. Therefore, Organizational study presented a new perspective to today’s organizational managers to enhance their organizations ‘efficiency.

However, today, experts of management and organization prescribe organizational study as a medicine to all organizational problems, there are managers, who are unable to understand the topic, in which organizational improvement requires commitment to permanent learning, and this inability has made the broadcast and implementation of organizational study and the factors of this important organizational variable a problem. It is a big challenge for organizations on their way to growth, development, obtaining permanent competitive advantage in complicated and variable environmental conditions. For the increasing and wonderful effect of this medicine, Managers of sophisticated organizations should highly pay attention that studying is permanently assigned as an important part of daily organization activities in all levels, which is an opening to consecutive victories of organizational success.