Building a supportive culure for sustained organisational learning in public sectors.

Senaratne, Sepani; Victoria, Michele Florencia

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an approach to build a supportive organisational culture for sustained organisational learning in public sectors. Changing culture is not an easy task. It involves an in-depth understanding about culture and its relationship with organisational learning. First, this chapter provides a brief introduction to organisational learning, organisational culture, and their relationship. Then, characteristics and attributes of a learning culture are identified. Finally, using case study research findings of a public sector construction organisation operating in Sri Lanka, an approach is presented in this chapter on how to identify present culture of the organisation and change it to a learning culture.

Citation

SENARATNE, S. and VICTORIA, M.F. 2014. Building a supportive culure for sustained organisational learning in public sectors. In Al-Bastaki, Y. and Shajera, A. (eds.) Building a competitive public sector with knowledge management strategy. Hershey, PA: ICI Global [online], chapter 5, pages 118-134. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4434-2

• Online Publication Date: Aug 31, 2013
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jan 16, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 16, 2018
• Print ISSN: 2327-3372
• Electronic ISSN: 2327-3380
• Publisher: IGI Global
• Pages: 118-134
• Series Title: Advances in human resources management and organizational development
• Series ISSN: 2327-3380
• Book Title: Building a competitive public sector with knowledge management strategy
• Chapter Number: Chapter 5
• ISBN: 9781466644342
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4434-2.ch005
• Keywords: Organisational learning; Public sectors; Organisational culture; Learning culture
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2668