Orientation to Organizational Learning and Its Effects on Innovation and Performance

Author(s):  
Fred Davinson Contreras Palacios ◽  
Rafael Ignacio Perez-Uribe ◽  
Iván Rodrigo Vargas Ramírez ◽  
Carlos Salcedo-Perez

This research demonstrates how the orientation to organizational learning affects the innovation and performance of the Colombian micro, small, and medium (MSMEs) enterprises, based on a study with 403 Colombian MSMEs, pretending that the results allow the government sector and the academy to design strategies maintain or improve, as appropriate, innovative and learning practices within these organizations. Two hypotheses were raised: 1) learning orientation positively influences business performance and 2) learning orientation positively influences business innovation. The two hypotheses are demonstrated after performing a multiple regression analysis and a broadly significant relationship was evidenced both between the orientation to learning and innovation and in each of the dimensions that make it up: innovation in products/services, processes, and management.

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Sulhaini Sulhaini ◽  
Rusdan Rusdan ◽  
Rahman Dayani ◽  
Baiq Ismiwati

This research aimed at examining the chain of effects of organisational culture and human resource practices towards SMEs’ creativity and performance. The study contributes to the literature by giving explanations related to how human resource practices, market and learning orientations affect the creativity and performance of SMEs. Population in this research was all SMEs producing handicraft, food / beverage and others in Mataram-Indonesia. Sample firms were selected using purposive sampling. The results showed that organizational culture, namely market orientation and learning orientation affect creativity and business performance in different ways. Learning orientation does not have a strong effect on creativity but has a direct effect on business performance. Meanwhile market orientation and human resource practices have no direct effect on business performance but through their influence on creativity. Market orientation and human resource practices ensure high business performance through its influence on creativity improvement. Market orientation becomes a source of creative ideas as its dimensions provide opportunities for SMEs to find useful ideas. Furthermore, human resource practices maintain / motivate employees for continuous creative endeavors, faster and better than to competitors. This creates higher customer value, stronger competitive advantage and greater guarantees business success /business performance.Penelitian ini menguji pengaruh berantai dari budaya organisasi dan human resource practices terhadap kreatifitas dan kinerja usaha UMKM. Studi ini berkontribusi pada literature dengan memberikan penjelasan terkait bagaimana human resource practices, market dan learning orientations mempengaruhi kreatifitas dan kinerja usaha UMKM. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah semua UMKM dibidang usaha pengolahan baik kerajinan maupun makanan/minuman dan lainnya. Teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah purposive sampling dari teknik sampling Non-Probability Sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa budaya organisasi, yaitu market orientation dan learning orientation mempengaruhi kreatifitas dan kinerja usaha dengan cara yang berbeda. Learning orientation tidak berpengaruh kuat terhadap kreatifitas tetapi berpengaruh langsung terhadap kinerja usaha. Sedangkan market orientation memiliki pengaruh yang sama dengan human resource practices, yaitu tidak berpengaruh langsung terhadap kinerja usaha tetapi melalui pengaruhnya terhadap kreatifitas. Market orientation dan human resource practices menjamin kinerja usaha yang tinggi melalui pengaruhnya terhadap peningkatan kreatifitas. Market orientation menjadi sumber inspirasi ide-ide kreatif karena adanya orientasi kepada konsumen dan pesaing memberikan peluang bagi UMKM untuk menemukan ide. Selanjutnya, human resource practices menguatkan motivasi karyawan untuk berkreasi secara berkelanjutan, lebih cepat dan lebih unggul dari pesaing. Hal ini menciptakan keunggulan bersaing yang lebih kuat dan menjadi jaminan kesuksesan usaha/kinerja usaha yang lebih tinggiKeywords :human resource practices, organizational culture, creativity


2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Ni Made Wahyuni ◽  
I Made Sara

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide new practical and theoretical insights into how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adjust and further develop business competencies, innovations and performance by using market orientation, learning orientation behaviors and entrepreneurial orientation. Design/methodology/approach The data was collected from manufacturing SMEs of textile products that had a number of employees between 5 and 99 people in the province of Bali, Indonesia, in 2016. Bali province was chosen as a research location because Bali was one of the tourism centers in Indonesia and even in the world was considered suitable for this research. It was because it had textile product industries that contributed in the fulfillment of the needs of tourism clothing, national economy, the fulfillment of fashion needs and foreign exchange contributors from non-oil exports (Industry and Trade Service of Bali). Findings Based on the results of descriptive and inferential analysis that has been conducted, it can be concluded that the answer to the problems and objectives that have been determined is market orientation, learning orientation and entrepreneurial orientation affect business performance through knowledge competence and innovation directly and its influence is significantly positive. But market orientation, learning orientation and entrepreneurial orientation do not directly have a significant positive effect on innovation through knowledge competence. Market orientation, learning orientation and entrepreneurship orientation indirectly have a significant positive effect on business performance through knowledge and innovation competencies. Originality/value The lack of studies in the existing literature underscores the potential contribution of this subsequent study. The novelty of the research is first to develop a concept of learning orientation that is linked to competence of knowledge, which this link has not been much expressed in the context of industry SMEs; second, to build the concept of innovation development of small and medium-sized industry of textile industry based on market orientation by strengthening the mediation role of competence of knowledge.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 174-182
Author(s):  
Ifa Rizad Mustapa ◽  
Siti Seri Delima Abdul Malak

Purpose: Ongoing investigations on modern markets demonstrated that organizational limit structure some portion of the organization’s environment that affect its performance. Knowing its standing to the industry, a recent study inspected the effect of organizational capacity on business performance in Malaysia. The research focuses on attaining two objectives. Firstly, to analyze the perceptions of Malaysian listed companies’ directors on business capacity components. Secondly, to analyze whether different components of organizational capacity effect the performance of organizations listed in  Malaysia. Methodology: A questionnaire survey and the regression analysis have been used in obtaining the data and answering the research questions respectively. Main Findings: The consequences of this study show that company structure plays an important role in manipulating the organization’s performance. Nonetheless, organizational learning was established not to explain Malaysian companies’ performance. Hence, the results assist the firm in their hunt for better performance through using suitable business resources. Implications/Applications: Recognizing organizational structure as an important organizational capacity element might improve the performance of local business in the market to withstand competitive advantage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Muhammad Dwi Fadil Thio ◽  
Acha Fillail Romadhoni ◽  
Dela Ainun Nisya ◽  
Hesti Maheswari ◽  
Arif Murti Rozamuri

The development of PLTSa has become a government priority program to overcome electricity needs and reduce the amount of waste in Indonesia. However, the program also harms informal groups who earn a living and survive through collecting plastic waste. The objective of this paper is to design a PLTSa business process that not only aims to generate electrical energy and overcome the problem of landfills but also accommodate the needs of informal groups. The situational analysis is conducted using PESTLE and SWOT to enhance a business process canvas that is beneficial to all stakeholders by recommending business innovation for PLTSa. Society as a source of waste is entitled to sort out the waste according to the specified category. The Semi-formal group of workers assist the government in the process of collecting, recycling the waste, and finally selling it to third parties. In addition to building PLTSa, government should provide waste management facilities and infrastructure and simultaneously developing an application for elaborating B2B and B2C business processes including collecting waste and selling recycled products. PLN is appointed to be in charge of buying electricity generated by PLTSa and selling it to the community at a reasonable price. The semi-formal groups of workers are expected can improve their business performance and willing to realize environment waste free. The community will be supported with the cheaper electricity bill, while the government will not be burdened with the operational costs of PLTSa.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Nadiah Zulkarnain ◽  
Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽  
Nik Herda Nik Abdullah ◽  
Jamaliah Said

Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) are expected to show competitive performance in order to reflect the accountability of taxpayers’ money. Therefore, this study is an attempt to assess the status of the current level of organizational learning orientation among the Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia. This study collected primary data based on a set of questionnaire survey among 134 executives and managers of GLCs in Malaysia. The data were collected based on opinions of the ten factors of organizational learning practices by using the five-point Likert scale. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Further, the reliability of the data was tested using Cronbach’s alpha test, the validity of the data was tested by checking the normality test through skewness and kurtosis, and the consistency of the data was tested using factor analysis. On an average, 74.6% of the respondents agreed that they focus on these factors of organizational learning. The federal owned GLCs place more emphasis on organizational learning than the state owned GLCs. This study suggests improving the practices of organizational learning within the GLCs in Malaysia by emphasizing on the consideration that employee learning is an investment rather than an expense, employees should view themselves as partners in charting the direction of the organization, employees should not be afraid of critically reflecting on the shared assumptions about the ways of managing the organization, and by analyzing unsuccessful organizational endeavours and communicating the lessons learned widely among the employees.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafiz Ahmad Ashraf ◽  
Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq ◽  
Mumtaz Muhammad Khan

Purpose This paper aims to determine the influence of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence enablers on the financial, market and non-financial performance of the textile companies in Pakistan. Moreover, the mediating role of organizational learning culture is also tested in EFQM enablers and performance relationships. Design/methodology/approach Using a multi-respondent strategy, the data was collected from 254 textile firms registered with All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) using a highly structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling via AMOS v.22. Findings The results reveal that EFQM excellence enablers significantly influence financial, non-financial and market performance. Furthermore, organizational learning culture (OLC) significantly positively mediates the relationship between EFQM excellence enablers and business performance. Research limitations/implications This study enhances the literature of EFQM enablers and microfoundations of institutional theory in the textile industry of developing countries and proposes a way forward to the effective utilization of such enablers for higher performance. Originality/value This research is the first of its kind that empirically tests the microfoundations of institutional theory concerning EFQM, OLC and performance in the textile industry of Pakistan.


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Abdulai Mahmoud ◽  
Charles Blankson ◽  
Nana Owusu-Frimpong ◽  
Sonny Nwankwo ◽  
Tran P. Trang

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between market orientation, learning orientation and innovation; and second, assesses the role of innovation, market orientation and learning orientation on firms’ business performance using a developing country (i.e. the Ghanaian banking domain) as a study context. Design/methodology/approach – Following a nation-wide survey among senior managers of 28 banks in Ghana, five research propositions were tested using multiple linear regression analysis. Findings – Results demonstrate that market orientation has significant association with innovation while learning orientation has significant impact on innovation. Moreover, innovation mediates the relationship between market orientation and business performance. Research limitations/implications – This study adopt the cross-sectional research design and as such acknowledge the same limitations as other cross-sectional studies. Practical implications – The research will help bank executives especially in Ghana and other developing countries to appreciate these marketing variables. Social implications – Banks innovation efforts, concurrently with the development of market orientation culture and improvement in organizational learning processes must benefit bank customers and stakeholders as a whole. Originality/value – The research will help banks in Ghana and other developing countries to appreciate that their innovation efforts should concurrently be in sync with the development of market orientation culture and improvement in organizational learning processes.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Indayani Indayani ◽  
Vina Yunisdanur

This study aims to examine the effect of retaliation, status of wrongdoers, the level of wrongdoing seriousness, and organizational climate on whistleblowing intentions. The population in this study were Civil Servants (PNS) who work in the financial section of the Aceh Work Unit (SKPA) of 231 respondents. The data used in this study is primary data collected through a questionnaire survey. Statistical testing used in this study is multiple linear regression analysis with the help of the SPSS 20 application. The results of this study indicate that the retaliation and status of wrongdoers have a negative and significant effect on whistleblowing intentions, while the level of wrongdoing seriousness and organizational climate positively and significantly affect whistleblowing intentions. The contribution of this research is to provide an understanding to the entire State Civil Apparatus (ASN) to dare to report acts of fraud in the government environment, and to implement a whistleblowing system in order to reduce the level of fraud and corruption cases in Indonesia.


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