Learning and Unlearning in Organizations: Exploring the New-age Critical Insights in a Global Context

This article essentially attempts to explore the sub-domain based critical insights as available in the current era – that would revolve around the learning and unlearning efforts in organizations. Celebrated scholars of management discuss and share their perspectives on learning and unlearning within organizations, and how the same organizations can eventually cope up with such processes. Different characteristics and best practices – which include capacity building, independent thinking, and crystallization of opinions amongst many – become crucial towards the continued development of organizational learning, supplemented adequately by unlearning in progressive organizations. This paper also traces the existing body of scholarly works surrounding organizational learning and unlearning, and eventually, place forth certain focused inputs from academic and managerial stalwarts for a greater debate further. The author conducted numerous short interviews and held discussions with thought leaders and researchers across the world, who had chosen to pursue learning and unlearning theories and techniques as a part of their careers. Describing the notional evolution of learning and unlearning and their associated ideas as explained by various greats from the given field, this paper explains several viewpoints held by academic investigators as well as a few practitioners on both theoretical and practical aspects of learning and unlearning in organizations of all sizes and forms