Creating learning a organization

Volkswagen is a learning company. They have a spacial learning department. Every employee is required to go trough certain training and even get certified for certain positions. Knowledge is spread through those trainings, internal trainings, magazine is being published every month on different topic, intranet is available for every employee with online educational sessions. There are lots of videos and literature for everybody to educate themselves. Additionally, the software built for the employees to work with like ETKA and ELSA consist of lots of information about the product. How to build or repair that step by step. Additionally, the technology is shared among all of the brands part of Volkswagen. 

Organizational design

Volkswagen. We have already talked about all of the Volkswagen brands in the post about diversification. The organizational structure is divisional- all of the brands are independent. However, strategic groups are formed and knowledge is spread through the company. Research centers are working for all of the brands and innovational technology is incorporated in all of them. The interesting and unique thing about the organizational structure is that not only the divisions are independent but even structures inside them have relatively high independence- production plants and importance and other structures can decide for themselves and in some cases they have to negotiate deals as if they are separate companies. The independence is a positive characteristic as each department can aim at the best goals possible. However, there are supervisors who manage and coordinate the work in all of the departments and make sure they are not working against each other.