The prevalent business environment characterized by technological advances, globalization, powerful customers and increasing ethical concerns is exerting a lot of pressures on business organizations. The ever increasing competition means that it is easier to fail than to succeed. There are some key business virtues to be incorporated in order to gain competitive advantage or even to survive. Or...

Purpose – Fundamentally, the success of schools depends on first-rate school leadership, on leaders reinforcing the teachers’ willingness to adhere to the school’s vision, creating a sense of purpose, binding them together and encouraging them to engage in continuous learning. Leadership, vision and organizational learning are considered to be the key to school improvement. However, systematic ...

Starting from the concept of relationship as a source of organizational learning, this paper explores what makes organizations fail to learn from relationships. In particular the focus is on organizational identity barriers which emerge within a relationship. From our viewpoint an identity based perspective is only indirectly discussed within the organizational learning literature without reall...

as libraries at ferdowsi university of mashhad in iran experienced the transition from traditional libraries to modern electronic libraries, knowledge management (km) was employed as an approach in managing these libraries from 1999-2004. this approach is explained under four headings: organizational knowledge, knowledge presentation, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge application and the o...

Research objectives were to determine a synthesized framework and to establish a causal model of organizational learning, knowledge management, knowledge-sharing behavior, and organizational performance of cement mill employees in Thailand. The study reported the responses of 587 operational employees from 11 cement mills operating in different parts of Thailand. Data were analyzed with descrip...

The aim of this research is to understand and assess the application of organizational learning capabilities in the status quo and review desirable situations in the context of the agricultural faculty environment. Data were collected from 329 faculty members in 19 public agricultural faculties using a survey questionnaire. Results indicate that organizational learning capabilities are below av...

In this work, we aim to provide an in-depth understanding of the organizational learning curve and why significant differences in the rate of learning exist across organizations. We review what is known about organizational learning curves as well as what is unknown. In sum, much is known and much remains unknown. Few studies have “stepped inside the learning curve” to provide greater understan...