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Learning organization – exploring the benefits in the context of transition economy

In todays’ business environment, characterized with hyper competition and more frequent and radical changes, the requisite for continuous learning and innovating in all areas of doing business is becoming larger and larger with every new day. The concept of learning organization presents the ideal type of organization for contemporary business environment – an organization being able, by facilitating learning of its members, to continuously learn, transform and adapt to complex and fast changing business environment. Mentioned requisite for continuous learning and innovating is all the more present in transition economies in which companies are trying to catch-up with the competition coming from developed economies. Despite the increasing demand for a new knowledge, the concept of learning organization, the ideal organizational context for acquiring, distributing, interpreting and memorizing (new) knowledge, is still to take a full swing in majority of transition economies’ companies. This paper investigates the nature and the level of presence of learning organization characteristics. Furthermore, the benefits of learning organization characteristics present in the transition economy’s companies are being explored in terms of organizational effectiveness. For this to be accomplished, collected data from 36 transition economy’s companies were processed via SPSS 23.0 and Microsoft Excel. Obtained results, based on descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis, offered confirmation of proposed theoretical propositions, while also emphasizing number of interesting relations and findings.

knowledge, learning organization, organizational effectiveness, transition economy

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