Senge's five disciplines for the learning organization

Learning organizations involve the mastery of certain basic disciplines or ‘component technologies’. Peter Senge identifies five that are said to be converging to innovate learning organizations.

Systems thinking

Personal mastery

Mental models

Building shared vision

Team learning

He adds to this recognition that people are agents, able to act upon the structures and systems of which they are a part. All the disciplines are, in this way, ‘concerned with a shift of mind from seeing parts to seeing wholes, from seeing people as helpless reactors to seeing them as active participants in shaping their reality, from reacting to the present to creating the future’ (Senge 1990: 69).

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