Abstract
Organisations with a learning organisation concept are finding a better position in response to external stimuli, greater flexibility (and therefore the ability to keep up with development) or to improve corporate image through this concept. Employee satisfaction can also be improved by promoting learning. So far, only a few studies have been performed on Czech Republic territory using the Dimension of Learning Organisation Questionnaire. The aim of this study is to compare results in the 2018 and 2019 surveys conducted in the IT sector and secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The results show that there is a statistically significant difference in the significance level p = 0.05 in 2018 between the age categories 11–20 years and 21–30 years (p = 0.04) in relation to the evaluation of the individual dimensions of the learning organisation. Simultaneously, there is a statistically significant difference between the average dimension rating for organisations with less than 250 employees in 2018 and 2019 (p = 0.02). Overall, after comparing the surveys, it is argued that the implementation rate of a learning organisation in the IT sector and in the secondary school sector is roughly the same.
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The paper was written with the support of the specific project 2019 grant “Determinants of Cognitive Processes Impacting the Work Performance” granted by the University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic and thanks to help of students František Hašek and Jan Petružálek.
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Zubr, V. (2019). Dimensions of a Learning Organisation in the IT Sector and Secondary Schools in the Czech Republic. In: Rønningsbakk, L., Wu, TT., Sandnes, F., Huang, YM. (eds) Innovative Technologies and Learning. ICITL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11937. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35343-8_45
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