Current status and promising directions for research on the learning organization

Human Resource Development Quarterly - Tập 29 Số 1 - Trang 15-29 - 2018
Karen E. Watkins1, Kyoungshin Kim2
1University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
2Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

Tóm tắt

This article examines the state of research on the learning organization in the field of HRD and future directions that hold promise for enriching our understanding of organizational learning and the learning organization. The article differentiates these two streams of research and explores areas where one body of research may be useful to the other. The article draws heavily on studies using theDimensions of a Learning Organization Questionnaire(DLOQ©). Emerging work testing cross‐cultural validity and levels of analysis, as well as social network analyses, shows promise in deepening our understanding of the construct. Finally, a case is made for the need for studies of learning organization interventions in order to continue to test the usefulness of the construct of a learning organization for HRD practitioners.

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