Session 5 Junyan

Review group workplace cases: compare similarities and differences and develop a table evidencing this.

Include comparisons of the ‘LO Survey’ recently completed.

What can be learnt from this comparison to help complete Assignment Task 1

Learning Organization Score Summary

	Guangdong Museum	Channel Zhejiang	Median
Leadership that reinforces learning	70	65	78
Learning process	71	76	72
Learning environment	63	60	70

First table is the learning organization score summary, which lists the three main elements of a learning organization including Leadership that reinforces learning, learning process and learning environment.

Comparing with different kinds of groups, the Guangdong museum and Channel Zhejiang, we can find that in the part of leadership that reinforces learning both of them cannot achieve a median score at the number of 78. Obviously, the Guangdong museum has a higher score than that of Channel Zhejiang. When I worked in the Guangdong museum, the leaders of museum pay more attention to concentrate on the outcomes of activities. Only if in some special situation, they need us to learn more new knowledge for preparing the next activity.

The score of learning process in these two groups is so different. The score of Channel Zhejiang in this part beyond the median score, while the score of Guangdong museum behind it. According to talking with my group member who ever worked in the Channel Zhejiang, I find the learning process in some organization of Channel Zhejiang is more creative and effective than our museum.

At the last element of this table, both of two groups do not obtain a higher score than the median. As I have mentioned before, in the museum, leaders just care the results of activities, leading to the unsatisfied learning environment. However, when there is a new exhibition will be open to the public very soon, the experts of this filed will provide us a well learning environment so that we can grasp the necessary knowledge as soon as possible.

Concrete Learning Process and Practices

	Guangdong Museum	Channel Zhejiang	Median
Experimentation	79	93	70
Information collection	64	96	78
Analysis	57	71	38
Education & Training	79	52	78
Information transfer	77	70	70

The second table presents five elements such as experimentation, information collection, analysis, education & training and information transfer to describe the concrete learning process and practices. To the experimentation in learning organization, both of two groups have a higher score than the median level. And we can infer that there are a larger number of experiments in the concrete learning process and practices for the Channel Zhejiang. Interestingly, for the most situations, the Channel Zhejiang can achieve a relatively high score except for education &training. On the contrary, the Guangdong museum gains a high score in this element. Due to the real conditions, we explain that the education &training are provided by the museum, while people in TV station have to learn by themselves or daily work experience.

Supportive Learning Environment

	Guangdong Museum	Channel Zhejiang	Median
Psychological safety	63	60	74
Appreciation of difference	57	61	62
Openness to new ideas	75	79	88
Time for reflection	60	40	48

The third table lists four elements which impact the supportive learning environment in the learning organization.  Interestingly, the scores of two groups for appreciation of difference and openness to new ideas are relatively low. Maybe, the most possible reason to explain it is that both of two groups are ordered by the relevant parent offices. So, in some situations, they have to obey the superior command, resulting in their own ideas can not be applied.