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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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Finnestrand, Hanne – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how the Nordic model, featuring highly regulated trade union-employer collaboration, has enabled the building of learning organizations through a co-generative learning model involving both practitioners and action researchers. Design/methodology/approach: A literature search on the Nordic sociotechnical…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Unions, Employers, Cooperation
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Almannie, Mohamed – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
This study introduces a critical issue in the practicality of training programs, not only in Saudi Arabia, but also in other developing countries where billions of dollars are spent on training human resources without evaluation of these programs on workplace practice and organization development. This study investigates barriers encountered in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Transfer of Training, Technology Transfer
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Godkin, Lynn; Allcorn, Seth – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: This article aims to present an alternative approach to diagnosing behavioral barriers to organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper juxtaposes interruptions in organizational learning with characteristics of narcissism and arrogant organization disorder. Psychoanalytically informed theory and DSM-IV criteria are…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Barriers, Behavior Theories, Organizational Climate
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Cao, Rui; Chuah, Kong Bieng; Chao, Yiu Chung; Kwong, Kar Fai; Law, Mo Yin – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: This paper addresses the importance of a more proactive role of organizational learning (OL) facilitators, learning motivation reinforcer, through a two-part longitudinal study in a case company. The first part of this study aims to investigate and analyze some unexpected challenges in the project action learning-driven (PAL) OL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Experiential Learning, Partnerships in Education
Chappell, Clive; Hawke, Geof – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This Support Document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report, "Investigating Learning through Work: The Development of the 'Provider Learning Environment Scale'" (ED503392). While couched in very different terms, the analysis presented in this report points to a substantial overlap in the conceptual bases that…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Organizational Development, Work Environment
Hawke, Geof; Chappell, Clive – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
This Support Document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report, "Investigating Learning through Work: The Development of the 'Provider Learning Environment Scale'" (ED503392). It provides readers with a complete copy of the "Provider Learning Environment Scale" (version 2.0); and an accompanying user…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Vocational Education, Organizational Development, Work Environment
Chappell, Clive; Hawke, Geof – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
The purpose of this research activity was to investigate contemporary understandings of the connections between learning and work. This initial work was then used to inform the development of an organisational tool that registered training organisations (RTOs) could use to identify organisational practices likely to lead to greater learning at…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Educational Environment, Educational Change, Vocational Education
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Lucas, Leyland M. – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to look at the issue of culture's role in knowledge transfer within multinational corporations (MNCs). Studies of MNCs have hinted at the importance of culture to the performance of subsidiaries. Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions of power distance, individualism/collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Corporations, Cultural Influences, Context Effect
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Naslund, Dag; Olsson, Annika; Karlsson, Sture – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: While the importance of measuring customer satisfaction levels is well established, less research exists on how organizations operationalize such knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to describe an action research (AR) case study resulting in a workshop model to operationalize the concept of value. The model facilitates organizational…
Descriptors: Action Research, Training Methods, Staff Development, Employee Attitudes