The development of information technology is advancing the globalization process rapidly. The importance of knowledge and information is growing bigger and bigger, and global companies are actively adopting revolutionary management techniques to get a...
The development of information technology is advancing the globalization process rapidly. The importance of knowledge and information is growing bigger and bigger, and global companies are actively adopting revolutionary management techniques to get along with the stream of the times.
Changes and innovations cannot be avoided by the educational institutes too, which nurtures human resources that will lead the nation's future. As an administrative and supporting organization devoting itself to education activities, educational administration offices are also carrying out various innovations to respond to the recent changes. However, there is a certain limit to the government-lead innovations which base on the digitization of the work-flow it is hard for such a method to bring out an even response from the whole organization. Therefore, it would only be natural for people to claim for a 'learning organization' that will encourage the organization members' participation into this innovation process and consistently provide them with creative ideas and new information. Time has become such an invaluable resource in this knowledge-based society. To take control over the excessive amount of information, we need to supply new information constantly. An active learning organization would allow us to extend our abilities and expertise, which will thus bring an overall amelioration of the efficiency in working processes. An organization's competitiveness is now heavily affected by intangible assets, such as its members' individual capabilities in handling information, creativity, enthusiasm and the ability to familiarize oneself to the organization. This is why we are in need of a group research beyond individual studying.
This research is aimed to present a learning organization plan which would let the members of regional education administration offices develop their sharp focus, foreseeing the future environments of education. In order to provide such a plan, first we would try analyzing the accomplishments made by learning organizations within enterprises and public organizations, then look for prior requirements which are need to be solved for learning organization system to settle in regional education administration offices. After that, we will take a look at the tasks that are needed to be faced by the organization leaders and other members, and how leaders should endeavor to reinforce their learning capabilities. Going through these matters is important in that it would provide us a general direction of how we should relate the learning group with the organization, and therefore it is expected to provide us a clue to our new opportunity.
This article is formed of six chapters. In Chapter 1: Introduction, we will talk about the necessity and the goals of this research. Chapter 2 will allow us to contemplate on the general conspectus of the learning organization such as its concept and characteristics, its requirements, models and obstacles. In chapter 3 we will analyze previous learning organization cases, referring to preceding researches, articles and related documents. The 4th chapter would have an inside look at the realities of current regional education administration offices and look for prior requirements to construct and maintain learning organization system, and chapter 5 presents a solution in constructing the learning organization system for the regional education administration offices, based on the research outcome. Chapter 6 is a conclusion which would again emphasize the solution for structuring the learning organization system.
The solution presented in this article is basically derived by applying enterprises' learning organization accomplishments to suit public organizations' characteristics. This method could create an unexpected gap in its actual execution, but since this methodology is to be explained through a fundamental and comprehensive conceptualization, flexible responses are expected towards those various situations which could occur in its operation.
Now, the answer is simple. We should recognize the problem and improve the situation we are in. Members of the regional education administration offices must accept how the society has changed to learning in general. To meet the increasing expectations in educational demands, we should actively participate in learning organization activities with an open mind.