Three Kinds of Management Cultures/Practices and Their Impact on Organizational Learning Capability and Performance

摘要：

How to identify and implement suitable management cultures/practices to enhance organizational learning capability and build true learning organization is still a difficult and challenging task in both academic and practitioner circles today. In this paper,firstly three kinds of management cultures/practices (customer, employee and competitor oriented ones) were proposed, secondly an instrument with good reliability and validity for measuring the three kinds of management cultures/practices, organizational learning capability and organizational financial performance was developed, thirdly the positive relationship among the three kinds of management cultures/practices, organizational learning capability and organizational financial performance was tested in 110Chinese business organizations. Both the correlational and the structural equation analysis indicated that three kinds of management cultures/practices positively impact organizational learning capability that positively influences organizational financial performance.Findings were interpreted as suggestion that business organizations can use the proposed three kinds of management cultures/practices to enhance organizational learning capability and therefore performance.

关键词： Organizational learning learning organization Customer oriented management culture/practice Competitor oriented management culture/practice Employee oriented management culture/practice Performance Chinese organization

作者: Chen Guoquan

作者单位: The School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1136-1147

在线出版日期: 2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）