stages, then the organization would mostly reflect the traits of a learning organization and
therefore, it was hard to differentiate it from a learning organization.
The in-depth study of learning organization also revealed that the model presented
by Senge is difficult to find in its true replica and is normally seen with little bit variation
in its traits as listed. Based on this fact the confusion arouse out of the situation as to
where that organization should be placed, i.e., in the second category of the organizations
passing through a transitional phase or the third category that of the learning
organization. It was difficult to decide whether the organization belonged to the category
of transformational organizations and is in its final stage of maturity or had actually
acquired the stage of maturity of becoming a learning organization. This means that
another research study would have been required to clear any such ambiguities about the
status of the learning organization. In order to avert the suspicions about this study, the
sample of this research was based on two major categories with the clearly defined
characteristics and boundaries, i.e, the conventional organizations and learning
organization.
Another issue confronted at this stage was that as this study was that of the nature
of the service contract of the employees. The question was that shall this study consider
both types, i.e, temporary and permanent employees? To address this issue it was decided
to limit the survey to permanent employees or employees those contract employees who
were hired for a long term. Therefore, it was decided to exclude any short term contract
employees and daily wagers. This lead to the readjustment of the sample size of the
organizations selected for the study so as to suffice the analysis need of the study.
To overcome this problem the sample size with respect to the number of
organizations selected for each of the category was increased as the number of such
employees were far less as compare to the required number. In this study Learning
Organization and Conventional Organizations have been categorized as:
- Organization A : Learning Organizations
- Organization B : Conventional Organizations
During the whole discussion on analysis the reference to Organization A and
Organization B has been made on the basis of the above categorization.