ABSTRACT
The idea of the learning organization has generated considerable interest in recent years among both scholars and practitioners. We are interested in the implications of this phenomenon for the practice of organization development, or OD. In this article we ask, “How can organization development be used to build the learning organization?” and “How should organization developrnent be reconceived to create learning organizations?” The article outlines a conceptual model of the learning organization, indicates how OD can be useful to the learning organization, and discusses implications of the learning organization for changing organizational development practice and theory.
