The Impact of Learning Culture on Organizational Development among the Members of the Educational Complex of Zabol University of Medical Sciences
Keywords:
Learning culture, Organizational development, Training courses, Cronbach's alpha coefficient.Abstract
Nowadays, the survival of organizations and especially universities are depended on this issue that how they accept changes, improve their services and increase their competitiveness. Organizational learning is the main way for creating job together with knowledge and also improving the organizational performance. The present study was performed to assess the influence of learning culture and training courses on Organizational Development among the faculty members of Educational Complex of Zabol University of Medical Sciences in 2015. This research is descriptive and based on survey and correlational. The Statistical population of this research are all 30 faculty members of Educational Complex of Zabol University of Medical Sciences. In this study, two standard questionnaires of learning culture and organizational development were used for collecting of data. The construct validity and reliability of questionnaires were determined using confirmatory factor analysis and using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, respectively. Reliability coefficients for learning culture questionnaire was determined 0.90 and for organizational development questionnaire was determined 0.93. Descriptive statistical methods like mean and standard deviation and also inferential statistical methods like One Sample T-Test and structural equation modeling were used for data analyzing.
All done statistical methods revealed that components status of Learning Culture (t =-2.494; p =0.019) was not at an optimum and average level but components status of organizational development (p=0.003; t=3.268) was in optimum and average level. These results also were shown that the effect of learning culture on organizational development (r=0.588; t-Values=3.621) is positive and significant. So there is hope that with the establishment of learning culture within every organization, increase organizational development in its.
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