CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

down the whole process of this research. For this research about thirteen different
organizations were contacted out of which only seven allowed access to their staff to
collect first hand data. Surprisingly, most of these organizations were multinational and
were identified as potential sample for learning organizations’ category. No specific
cause was given for such non-cooperative attitude.
At certain occasion while communicating with those organizations it was sensed
that the subject matter of this research was itself their major concern. Their underlying
concern which at no point was expressed explicitly indicated that the study may raise the
expectations of the employees. Based on this assumption the management of the most of
the organizations as mentioned earlier considered the issue as a potential cause of
restlessness and frustration among the employees in future.
Another factor that may have been the cause of keeping the matters discreet and
least pronounced probably appeared to keep secrecy of the business tactics. All of the
multinational organizations were cognizant of the highly competitive business
environment and therefore there reluctance in allowing their names to appear in the study
was based on their apprehensions of exposing their trade secrets. For these organizations
retaining their employees is an important aspect of management. In case of the
conventional organizations as most of these were having bureaucratic structure so their
major concern was the exercise of their authority and control over the information.
As mentioned in chapter 3, the number of respondents taken from the senior
management is different for the two different categories of organization but that should
not affect the results of the study as its main purpose is to identify the behavioral patterns
of the senior management. Incase of the multinational organization though the number of
Senior Management Staff is less but as their procedures are set as internal standards for
the whole chain of offices, therefore, deviation from general practices are negligible. In
such cases the general policies of the organization are the ruling source and hence, the
individuals’ choices have little impact on the employees’ benefit packages and are limited
to suggestions only.
Qualitative analysis has two parts. The first part is the analysis of the information
collected from the executives and the second part include the analysis of the information