A CONCEPTUAL STUDY ON INNOVATIVENESS AND PROACTIVENESS IN LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS

Learning needs of organizations due to constant and rapid changes in the environment. Organizations which operating in a constantly changing and devolving environment, to determine the strategic objectives on the one hand, while on the other hand have to adapt to these changes in the technological and structural. Learning organizations can capture these rapid changes and transformations needed at the time needed to renew themselves by performing organizations. In this study, innovativeness and proactiveness of learning organizations are discussed and recommendations are made for futurestudies. As a result, organizations no longer taken risks, not doing innovation and passive exposure is not enough to protect current exposure are expressed. Another important result is that proactiveness and innovation have positive effects on revival and improvement of organizations and their performances and in the meantime organizational innovation and proactiveness can be seen as a means of providing organizations a competitive advantage.