Promoting organizational learning in the public service

Many observers believe that governments lack the ability to learn and adapt to circumstances of rapid change. Governments tend to experience great difficulties in diagnosing problems early, selecting policy directions, designing effective and efficient programmes, rectifying problems and avoiding what is commonly referred to as “public sector failure”. As a result of these capacity gaps, some countries have not been able to take advantage of the many opportunities offered by rapid advances in the economic and technological spheres. An important quality of organizations capable of learning, on the other hand, is their adeptness in identifying and analysing salient cues in the broader environment as well as responding to those cues in an effective and timely manner.

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