The relative effects of environmental, internal and contextual factors on organizational learning :
By: LAM, Y. L. Jack
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Contributor(s): PANG, S. K. Nicholas.
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ArticlePublisher: West Yorkshire, England : MCB University Press, 2003Subject(s): Hong Kong | Organizational learning | Schools | Transformational leadershipThe Learning Organization : an international journal 10, 2 and 3, p. 83-97Abstract: In the context of rapid environmental changes under current school reform, the present paper attempts to locate an answer for a historical question related to the sources of organizational changes and for a prevailing question probing the relationships among external, internal and contextual factors affecting school organizational learning. Based on the information provided by 1,197 teaching staff from 67 Hong Kong government-aided elementary and secondary schools, the present study confirms the proposition advanced by the strategic choice school, that it is leadership action which accounts for organizational adaptation. Moreover, through a series of path analyses, transformational leadership along with supportive culture and flexible structure are mainly accountable for organizational learning, while external and contextual conditions provide the additional incentives in dictating the extent of organizational learning that is taking place in schools
In the context of rapid environmental changes under current school reform, the present paper attempts to locate an answer for a historical question related to the sources of organizational changes and for a prevailing question probing the relationships among external, internal and contextual factors affecting school organizational learning. Based on the information provided by 1,197 teaching staff from 67 Hong Kong government-aided elementary and secondary schools, the present study confirms the proposition advanced by the strategic choice school, that it is leadership action which accounts for organizational adaptation. Moreover, through a series of path analyses, transformational leadership along with supportive culture and flexible structure are mainly accountable for organizational learning, while external and contextual conditions provide the additional incentives in dictating the extent of organizational learning that is taking place in schools
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