Conceptualizing of Learning Organization toward Sustaining Learning Organization Performance

A learning organization is a place where people in the organization are powerfully learning collectively and by their own to expand their knowledge and skills so that they can enhance and optimize their organizational performance at the maximum. This paper reviews the literature that leads to developing a conceptual framework of a study on the factors of learning organization towards sustaining an organization’s performance in one organization in Malaysia. Based on the literature review, three main independent variables are identified, namely, learning culture, leadership and dialogue; while the dependent variable is sustainability of learning organization’s performance. The study is significant to the leader in improving their organization’s services and learning activities among staff toward sustaining their organization as a learning organization.