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Michelle de Andrade Souza Diniz Salles; Fernando Victor Cavalcante; Beatriz Quiroz Villardi; Camila de Sousa Pereira-Guizzo – Learning Organization, 2025
Purpose: This paper primarily aims to identify the multilevel learning processes emerging from abrupt telework implementation in a public knowledge-intensive organization (KIO) amid the COVID-19 crisis. Design/methodology/approach: This single-case process research was guided by interpretivist epistemology. Empirical data from documentary research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teleworking
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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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P., Arunprasad; Dey, Chitra; Santhanam, Nivethitha; Bin Ahmad, Kamarul Zaman – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effect of strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices on two learning outcomes, learning orientation and learning competence, which past research has seldom examined in the UAE context. SHRM practices consisted of four factors, namely, talent acquisition, learning and development, performance…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Strategic Planning, Retailing, Outcomes of Education
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Linden, Ane Isabel; Bitencourt, Claudia; Muller Neto, Hugo Fridolino – Learning Organization, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the contribution of knowing in practice (KP) to the development of dynamic capabilities (DC) in the context of health-care organizations. Design/methodology/approach: The authors develop a case study in a Brazilian hospital in three stages using the data collection techniques of interviews, focus groups,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Case Studies, Hospitals, Employee Attitudes
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McKenzie, Jane; Varney, Sharon – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to consider middle managers' influence on organizational learning by exploring how they cope with demands and tensions in their role and whether their practice affects available team energy. Design/methodology/approach: In total, 43 managers from three large organizations involved in major change assessed their group's…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Workplace Learning, Coping, Administrator Attitudes
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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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Bourne, Lynda; Walker, Derek H. T. – Learning Organization, 2004
Effective project managers are required to have both "hard" technical skills to help control the iron triangle of time, cost and functional scope as well as relationship management skills to work effectively with people and get the best out of them. This paper argues that project managers also need a third skill: we refer to it as tapping into the…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Learning Processes, Stakeholders, Administrator Attitudes
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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