ABSTRACT
Organizational culture is the set of collective meaning structures that organizational members use to interpret the nature of their world and themselves in relation to it. There are three sequences of learning related to time: learn then act, act then learn and act through learning. All three models of the relationship between learning and acting are useful, though each is most effective under the conditions ascribed to it. Human relationships can been seen as either individualistic or oriented toward the community. The assumption that humans are oriented toward community would result in a focus on the learning of the collective. The assumptions of the receptive category view the organization as the recipient of environmental forces and whims. The necessary learning tasks are, first, to be fully aware of what is happening through environmental scanning or other search processes, and, secondly, to make appropriate adaptations in response.
