Connecting Culture and Learning in Organisations: A Review of Current Themes

While the respective literatures on organisational
cultures and workplace learning are fairly well
developed, the potential insights to be gained from
combining the two have been largely ignored. The
primary aim of this paper is to connect some of the main
themes in the two literatures. In particular, the paper
highlights some of the ways in which organisational
cultures and subcultures can support – or inhibit –
workplace learning. It is hoped that the paper provides a
starting point for understanding more precisely the types
of assumptions, beliefs and practices that might support
workplace learning, thus providing a possible
foundation for the construction of a model of a learningsupportive
culture.