Research indicates that successful adoption of information systems (IS) to support business strategy can help the organizations gain superior financial performance. e-Learning can be defined as learning through information and communication technologies and it should include a mechanism for forecasting the actual expected benefits, converted to monetary values, and then comparing the benefits t...

Many studies of learning have explored the impact of learning within organizations. This paper examines the impact of organization on learning. Organizational development interventions rarely pay attention to the emotional and political dynamics of organizational learning, even though the way people organize learning is intricately interwoven with emotion and politics. The aim of this paper is ...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the most important factors influencing supportive learning environment in public and private sector organizations on the one hand and to compare the levels of supportive learning environment between private and public sectors, on the other. Since, supportive learning environment is a building block of learning organization, the study, in other words, in...

INTRODUCTION: A critical importance has been attached to altruism and organizational learning capability in the improvement of organizational performance. In light of this significance, the present study investigated the effect of altruism on organizational learning capability with the mediating role of communication conflict and organizational trust in Red Crescent provincial branches of Gilan...

Aston Business School Research Institute is the administrative centre for all research activities at Aston Business School. The School comprises more than 70 academic staff organised into thematic research groups along with a Doctoral Programme of more than 50 research students. Research is carried out in all of the major areas of business studies and a number of specialist fields. For further ...

This study investigated the constructs that influence satisfaction and continuous use intention in e-learning services through a sample of 343 employees of two Brazilian public organizations. The main contribution of this study is the delivery of an assessment tool for performance oriented to training courses at distance in public organizations.

There has been increasing interest in automating calendar scheduling processes, and in this context, eliciting and reasoning about the user’s scheduling preferences and habits play major roles in finding optimal solutions. In this paper, we present work aimed at learning a user’s time preference for scheduling a meeting. We adopt a passive machine learning approach that observes the user engagi...

Introduction: The collaborative learning and interactive electronic-learning (e- learning) is one of the key factors in education system success. This study examined the collaborative e-learning in the framework of constructivism theory. Methods: This is a review article. The databases such as Scientific Information Databases, Magiran, Science Direct, and Google Scholar were reviewed. Also,...

Transformative organizational change requires organizational learning capacity, which we define in terms of (1) internal and (2) external organizational systems alignment, and promoting a culture of learning, including (3) an emphasis on exploration and information, (4) open communication, (5) staff empowerment, and (6) support for professional development. We shortened and adapted Watkins and ...