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Rishi Kappal; Dharmesh K. Mishra – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: Executive isolation, also known as workplace loneliness, its factors and impact are major issues for organizational development, future of work for leadership and learning culture. The purpose of this study is to examine the Executive isolation phenomenon where relationships between power distance, organizational culture and executive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Culture, Leadership, Business
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Borge, Baard H.; Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Skogmo, Per Øyvind – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: This study aims to explore whether hierarchical position and organizational size affect perceptions of a learning organization (LO) during reform implementation. Design/methodology/approach: An electronic survey was distributed in four Norwegian police districts at an early stage of reform implementation. One of the objectives of the…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Learning, Educational Change, Program Implementation
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Simoni, Michele; Caiazza, Rosa – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: Literature on board interlocks agrees that these inter-organizational ties are effective channels to exchange information and share knowledge. However, studies that consider the nature and the amount of knowledge that firms exchange are still relatively absent. Filling this gap, this paper aims to identify four types of mechanisms that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Development, Statistical Analysis, Databases
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Bui, Hong; Baruch, Yehuda – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical contribution to explicate the various factors and aspects that influence Senge's five disciplines and their outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: The paper develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of antecedents and outcomes of Senge's five disciplines, and offers moderators to…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Organizational Development, Learning, Workplace Learning
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Hoe, Siu Loon – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the organizational learning, market orientation and learning orientation concepts, highlight the importance of market knowledge to organizational learning and recommend ways in adopting a market-based approach to organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: The extant organizational learning…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Organizational Theories, Marketing, Administrators
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Dymock, Darryl; McCarthy, Carmel – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explore employee perceptions of the development of a learning culture in a medium-sized manufacturing company that was aspiring to become a learning organization. Design/methodology/approach: The research comprised an extended interview with the company's Organizational Development Manager, a validated…
Descriptors: Employees, Interviews, Manufacturing, Organizational Development
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Kenny, John – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To develop a theoretical model for strategic change that links learning in an organization to the strategic process. Design/methodology/approach: The model was developed from a review of literature covering a range of areas including: management, strategic planning, psychology of learning and organizational learning. The process of…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Maturity (Individuals), Models, Learning Processes
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Amitay, Mayan; Popper, Micha; Lipshitz, Raanan – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: The correlation between organizational unit managers' leadership styles and the level of organizational learning in their units was tested. Design/methodology/approach: A positive correlation was hypothesized between transformational leadership and organizational learning as manifested by organizational learning mechanisms--OLMs (the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Community Health Services, Clinics
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Osterberg, Peter – Learning Organization, 2004
It is proposed that to reach a state of generative learning, an organization requires a "generative learning manager": a person who understands the importance of development and directing of knowledge. The purpose of this study was, therefore, both to explain mechanisms like knowledge distribution, goal setting and symbolic convergence from a…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Administrators, Administrator Role, Cognitive Psychology
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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