they are highly motivated and autonomous to take new responsibilities in the firm. Therefore, the authors recommend the need for the use of learning organizations in organic and mechanistic structures as a way of improving the employee adaptive performance and behaviors (Kanten et al., 2015). In this case, learning structure will play the mediating role in these two structures.
The type of structure within an organization also influences the attitude the employees have towards their managers and other organizational stakeholders. Schminke, Cropanzano, and Rupp (2002) hypothesized in their study that dimensions of organizational structure that included size, formalization, centralization, and complexity influence the perception of the employees towards procedural, distributive, and interactional fairness.… Continue Reading...
level of employees, but also their morale.
The five disciplines of learning organizations, as formulated by Peter Senge, include “personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision, team learning and systems thinking” (Wilkinson, 2015, p. 117). It would be prudent to assess each discipline in an attempt to describe the leadership efforts that would come in handy in my organization so as to begin practicing the said disciplines. To begin with, when it comes to building a shared vision, the relevance of fostering interaction with organizational employees cannot be overstated. In that regard, therefore, to begin practicing this particular discipline, leaders in… Continue Reading...
so there is some relationship between the two. As Wilhelm (2017) notes, “Learning organizations and the people in them learn constantly from everything they do.” They not only look at their past performance but they also look at the performance of others in the industry to see what they might be missing. They are constantly engaged in a process of continuous education to enhance production and performance. Everything the organization does is done with the view of keeping track, just like sports analysts keep track of players’ stats, to see how everyone and everything is performing, where performance is lacking, and what… Continue Reading...
