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Do you want to transform your organization into a learning organization that embodies an effective learning culture? In his recent work, Workplace Learning: How to Build a Culture of Continuous Employee Development, Nigel Paine meticulously guides readers through the topic of organizational learning culture. The author makes a strong case for creating a learning culture in all organizations that is effective and sustainable. He aims to help people ‘take the critical first steps in building a learning culture in their workplace, and in so doing, create a sustainable model for change and transformation now and into the future’ (Paine, 2019, p. 7). Paine gives his primary audience, leaders and managers guiding principles and best practices of pioneering organizations. He also satisfies scholars interested in learning about concepts, such as organizational learning culture or a learning organization, as he reviews both historical and recent conceptualization of the topic, for instance, Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline and Bob Garratt’s Learning Organization.
Paine starts his work by asking three simple questions: ‘Does such a thing as a learning culture exist? If it does exist, can you define it? If it exists and you can define it, is it important, can you build it, and does it make a difference?’ (Paine, 2019, p. 15). His journey to answer these fundamental questions has yielded a research outcome, which outlines, explains and suggests practical tips about understanding and building an effective organizational learning culture for his audience. The author delivers the findings of his scholarly journey using a systematic approach divided among three parts in the book. He starts by exploring the concept of learning culture and learning organization and then moves to the second part to report case...