Abstract
Today organizations work permanently in unsustainable environments and need to frequent changes and learning in individual, group, organizational, and inter-organizational levels. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational learning and psychological empowerment in one of Tabriz hospital. Statistical population of this research is employed nurses in various work shifts that 207 ones were selected by simple random method as statistical method and personal information questionnaire, Marsick Watkins organizational learning questionnaire (2003), and Spritzer psychological empowerment questionnaire (1995) were used to collect data. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used in order to determine questionnaires reliability coefficient Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regression, functional analysis, and structural analysis were used to analyze data. Correlation coefficient results showed that there is positive and significant relationship with 99% confidence level between organizational learning and psychological empowerment aspects. In addition, regression results showed that predictor variables (organizational learning, team learning, and personal learning) explain 53.8% of variance (changes) of psychological empowerment variable significantly. Conclusion: organizations should enhance all aspects of psychological empowerment for maturity and it will be possible when we significantly focus on organizational learning. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n5p371
Highlights
Analysis of organizational learning has been studied incrementally in recent years
Learning has been considered as an infrastructural competitive advantage according to strategic view as heterogeneous source in organizations
The present research is applied, because it is used by purpose of using findings results from solutions of organizations and descriptive according to method, because it states issue and describes it by collecting data and how the present research is because it evaluates the relationships among organizational learning and nurses psychological empowerment
Summary
Analysis of organizational learning has been studied incrementally in recent years. Some studies have focused on psychological approach, sociological approach or are built on organizational theory view. Learning has been considered as an infrastructural competitive advantage according to strategic view as heterogeneous source in organizations. According to Bontis, Kroos and Halland” (2002) and “Nonaka and Takeuchi” (1995), learning ability can be organizational innovation and protecting competitive advantage in chaos organization. Learning promotes innovative activities and quality as the main determiners of success in competitive environments. It improves organizational abilities to learn innovative, efficient, effective activities and increase capacities. “Rusermale and Didis, (2004) showed that promoting learning by foreigner partners has positive effect on products development and modern and innovative services. According to report of “Baker and Sinkula” (1999) report, organizations by learning orientation can investigate foreign environment for paradigm of new technology leading to innovation (Hung et al, 2011)
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