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Learning Organisations: Nathalie Greenan Centre D'etudes de L'emploi and TEPP-CNRS Edward Lorenz University of Nice-CNRS
Learning Organisations: Nathalie Greenan Centre D'etudes de L'emploi and TEPP-CNRS Edward Lorenz University of Nice-CNRS
Learning Organisations: Nathalie Greenan Centre D'etudes de L'emploi and TEPP-CNRS Edward Lorenz University of Nice-CNRS
Nathalie Greenan
Centre dEtudes de lEmploi and TEPP-CNRS
Edward Lorenz
University of Nice-CNRS
OECD/France workshop on
Human resources, education and innovation, 7-8
December 2009
Outline
What is a learning organisation?
A quantitative assessment at the
European level based on the EWCS
The spread of learning organisations
The trend in work complexity
Policy issues
What is a learning
organisation? (1)
An organisation able to adapt and compete
at low cost through learning
Common definitional ground
multi-level concept: individual-teamorganisation
role of learning cultures: beliefs, norms
and values supportive of employee learning
specific HRM policies supportive of learning
culture
What is a learning
organisation? (2)
Tradeoffs in organisational design
stimulate dynamic properties / provide stability in the
organisational structure
standardisation/routine versus mutual
adjustement/innovation
Scientific and technical skills
deal with an employee participation contraint to
innovation in order to avoid conflicts between vested
interest in the organisation
characteristics of the innovative idea
socio-demographic characteristics of the workforce
soft skills
group processes
customer focus
transparency and fairness
Discretionary
Lean
Taylorism
learning
production
93.9
81.7
42.0
95.4
98.0
5.7
79.8
64.7
23.8
89.1
51.8
17.7
Traditional
organisation
29.7
68.7
19.2
46.5
Average
71.4
79.3
56.7
61.7
87.5
43.6
52.2
80.3
27.3
66.1
52.7
27.8
63.6
53.1
19.6
64.4
66.5
26.7
38.9
21.2
75.5
56.3
14.7
38.7
5.4
59.8
56.9
7.2
26.7
Team work
Job rotation
Quality norms
Responsibility for quality control
64.3
44.0
78.1
86.4
84.2
70.5
94.0
88.7
70.1
53.2
81.1
46.7
33.4
27.5
36.1
38.9
64.2
48.9
74.4
72.6
Monotony of tasks
Repetitiveness of tasks
19.5
12.8
65.8
41.9
65.6
37.1
43.9
19.2
42.4
24.9
LU
DE
SE
NL
BE
FR
AT
DK
PT
IT
% lead innovators
15
20
25
% lead innovators
15
20
25
30
30
FI
SEDE
LU
NL
AT
DK
BE
IT
FR
PT
EL
EL
UK
10
10
UK
ES
ES
20
30
40
50
% discretionary learning
LEAD
R-squared = .39
Fitted values
60
20
25
30
35
% lean organisation
LEAD
R-squared = .36
Fitted values
40
Model 1
Discretionary
Learning
.27***
Model 2 Model 3
Lean
Taylorist
Model 4
Simple
.04
-.25***
-.44***
-.28***
-.29***
.29***
.42***
.31***
-.01
.21***
-.09
-.42***
-.50***
-.09
-.20*
.06
.15***
-.17***
.11**
.25***
.42***
-.00
-.21***
.11*
-.18***
-.27***
-.46***
.09*
.03
-.01
.15***
.00
-.39***
-.03
-.11
.64***
.25***
.28***
.12**
.49***
.21***
-.99***
-.53***
-.36***
-.36***
-.55***
-.53***
Manufacturing
construction Services
and utilities
56.4
64.3
Public Sector
Total
60.6
Health
Public
Education and social Total
administration
work
68.1
85.8
68.1
74.3
59.9
67.0
63.6
70.5
78.7
65.5
71.9
69.2
67.5
68.3
80.7
86.5
83.8
83.7
75.6
81.8
78.9
84.7
86.6
86.5
85.9
64.5
58.6
61.4
71.7
65.2
70.9
69.2
73.1
84.6
67.1
71.7
69.9
77.7
65.5
65.9
78.9
69.6
74.8
78.7
73.4
71.1
Task rotation
with decision on task
division
Teamwork
without decision on task
division
Monotony of tasks
49.2
47.9
48.5
56.6
45.4
65.5
55.3
29.4
32.4
31.0
32.9
39.9
46.1
40.3
34.8
28.5
31.4
36.1
17.3
27.1
26.8
48.9
40.6
44.5
41.1
30.8
38.8
36.8
Repetitiveness of tasks
28.0
22.8
25.3
20.0
14.8
25.5
23.8
36.6
15.3
25.8
11.1
3.5
8.9
7.8
62.8
42.8
52.2
31.8
35.1
31.4
32.8
49.1
40.7
44.6
39.3
27.6
29.0
32.1
57.1
47.6
52.0
46.9
31.1
51.4
42.6
Automatic
Work pace Norm-based
constraints Hierarchical
Horizontal
Source: EWCS 2005
Degree of work
complexity
Rank
Trend
2005
95-05
EU-15
(-)
Scandinavian countries
Denmark
1
(+)
Finland
4
0
Sweden
2
0
British Isles
Ireland
9
(+)
UK
10
(-)
Western Europe
Austria
5
(+)
Belgium
7
0
Germany
13
(-)
France
8
0
Luxembourg
6
(+)
Netherlands
3
0
Mediterranean countries
Greece
14
(+)
Italy
11
(-)
Portugal
12
0
Spain
15
(-)
Country
level
Random
component
Source: EWCS 1995, 2000 and 2005