Hubungan di antara Dimensi Budaya dan Gaya Kepimpinan dengan Tahap Amalan Organisasi Pembelajaran di Universiti Teknologi Mara
Learning organization is defined as an organization that provides learning environment towards learning, alleviate learning process and develops continuous and collective learning capacity for the betterment of the organization and the society at large. Related studies revealed that organization...
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| Language: | English Malay |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7532/1/ABS_-__FP_2008_35.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7532/ |
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| Summary: | Learning organization is defined as an organization that provides learning
environment towards learning, alleviate learning process and develops continuous
and collective learning capacity for the betterment of the organization and the society
at large. Related studies revealed that organization that practice learning
organization will sustain. However, these studies emphasized only the profit-making
organizations and few studies were done for educational organizations. Two main
factors that contributed to learning organization were leadership and culture. It is
therefore the purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between
leadership styles and dimensions of culture and the level learning organization
practised at UiTM. UiTM is a public university with branches at all states in Malaysia
was promoted its status to university in 1999. The UiTM restructuring plan 2001 –
2010 comprised of three phases namely Phase I (Planning), Phase II (Implementation) and Phase III (Evaluation). Learning organization was given priority
for implementation phase with special focus to leadership and culture.
This quantitative study incorporated three models namely learning organization
models by Watkins and Marsick (1996), Bolman and Deal’s (1997) Leadership
Frame and Hofstede (1990) Culture Dimensions. This study employed the
Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaires (DLOQ) by Watkins and
Marsick (1996), Dorfman and Howell Scales (1988) and Bolman and Deal’s
Leadership Orientations(Other) questionnaires . The sample of this study was 200
UiTM lecturers and the data collection as well as data analysis was conducted by the
researcher.
The research findings revealed that UiTM is an educational organization that practice
learning organization. Continuous learning scored highest, followed by enquiry and
dialogue respectively. The findings positively indicated that UiTM is moving towards
learning organization formation. The study also discovered that highest learning
occurred at the individual, group and organizational level respectively that indicated
UiTM is positively moving towards learning organization.
The dominating leadership styles at UiTM are structure, human resource and
symbolic. Overall the study discovered a positive relationship between leadership
styles and learning organization that lead towards moderate level for each style. As
for Culture Dimensions, the highest mean score obtained was collectivism, power
distance, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance respectively. The findings also
discovered that a positive relationship between collectivism culture and learning
organization. Nevertheless, there was a negative relationship between power
distance, uncertainty avoidance and masculinity and learning organization. The findings of this study were expected to be beneficial to other educational
organizations as guidance towards formation of learning organization. This study has
added to the richness of literature in the related field especially leadership and
culture factors. |
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