Learning climate

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to bring conceptual clarity to the concept of learning climate, an important enabler of learning and cooperative intelligence in organizations. This occurs in three steps. First, a linguistic analysis is carried out of learning as a premodifier, alone and in conjunction with climate. The second step involves a conceptual analysis of different meanings and approximations of learning and climate in the management and organization literature, leading to a more encompassing concept of learning climate as the shared social psychological space within an organization in which learning, as error detection and correction, takes place. Third, the chapter extends this concept, intertwined with inquiry, in novel and critical directions that make it more amenable to the learning challenges of the twenty-first century.