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Mayra Liuviana Vega Chica; Luis Ángel Valle Lituma – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the mediating role of the motivation for learning in knowledge acquisition and knowledge transfer in students of higher education programs in business and management. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative correlational design. Data was collected from a sample of 366 students studying and working in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, College Students
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Islam, Khairul; Edwards, America L.; Shi, Duli; Lim, JungKyu Rhys; Sheppard, Ronisha; Liu, Brooke Fisher; Seeger, Matthew W. – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: This study investigates the processes that the US universities and colleges used to learn during the COVID-19 pandemic and the factors that facilitated and impeded their learning processes. Design/methodology/approach: To address this study's research questions, this study used a crisis communication and learning lens to interview crisis…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Communication Strategies, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hillon, Yue Cai; Boje, David M. – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: Calls for dialectical learning process model development in learning organizations have largely gone unheeded, thereby limiting conceptual understanding and application in the field. This paper aims to unify learning organization theory with a new understanding of Hegelian dialectics to trace the development of the storytelling learning…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Story Telling, Case Studies, Research Universities
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Santos, Jane Lucia Silva; Steil, Andrea Valéria – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to describe and analyze organizational learning processes and power dynamics during the adoption and use of an information system (IS) at a Brazilian public organization. Design/methodology/approach: A case study was chosen as the research method. Data were gathered from documents and interviews with key informants.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Information Systems
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Lauer, Sabine; Wilkesmann, Uwe – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to link two modes of governance (transactional and transformational) to organizational learning by examining the example of academic teaching. Consequently, the "transformational" strategies of best practices that have been used by German universities to achieve teaching excellence are interpreted as…
Descriptors: Governance, Best Practices, Universities, College Faculty
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Rook, Laura – Learning Organization, 2013
Purpose: The concept of a mental model has been described by theorists from diverse disciplines. The purpose of this paper is to offer a robust definition of an individual mental model for use in organisational management. Design/methodology/approach: The approach adopted involves an interdisciplinary literature review of disciplines, including…
Descriptors: Models, Cognitive Structures, Visualization, Schemata (Cognition)
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Holzmann, Vered; Mischari, Shoshana; Goldberg, Shoshana; Ziv, Amitai – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This article aims to present a unique systematic and validated method for creating a linkage between past experiences and management of future occurrences in an organization. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on actual data accumulated in a series of projects performed in a major medical center. Qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Hospitals, Knowledge Management, Identification
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White, Judith; Weathersby, Rita – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: Aims to assess whether a university can become a true learning organization. Design/methodology/approach: Focuses on the need for, and challenges of, transforming universities into true learning organizations. Findings: Observes that few of the underlying values that serve as the underpinnings of the learning organizations are actually…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Learning Processes, Universities, Values
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Kumar, Naresh; Idris, Khairuddin – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: This study aims to explore the relationships between learning organisation dimensions, institutional characteristics and knowledge performance among Malaysian private higher learning institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers sought managers' responses to the dimensions of the learning organisation questionnaire (DLOQ)…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Program Effectiveness, Organizational Development, College Environment