CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

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the business. A technical Director Health in this category comments about the impact and
contribution of trainings that it could be seen “when employees incorporate learning into
their on going activities and they start planning for new initiatives”.
Sharing knowledge with coworkers, quality in work and motivation are
factors that surely contribute to organizational development. According to a GM of such
an organization “the knowledge of the employees is improved which is useful for the
company and employee both”. Knowledge sharing is the basis of development culture
and knowledge sharing means enhancing the capacity of the organization in general. This
means that decision making in such organizations is more reasonable and accurate as it is
based on information leading to over all improvement in performance of the organization.
According to a senior executive of this category the impact could be seen as “their
sharing of information with the other staff members”.


H:1: If the organization's focus is continuous quality improvement, then the individual
skill development becomes its core pursuit


Identifying quality in work means that the organization is concerned about bringing
quality in output, therefore, higher frequency of this response means that this category of
the organization is relating staff development process to quality in work. Motivation is a
factor that ensures the continuity of the process, again learning organization responses
show a higher frequency as compared to conventional organization category.
Another interesting fact that came out of the information collected is that of the
learning organization category has identified capacity development for future
interventions, improvement in vision of the employees and career growth of the
employee are all those factors that relate to the future targets of the organization. As a
Manager Support Services belonging to this category comments “they work more
effectively to achieve goals and objectives of the organization”. This highlights the
futuristic approach in their staff development strategies. This means in these
organizations staff development is viewed in strong connection with the future strategies
relating to development of the organization. This also means that these organizations plan
staff development in connection to the future vision of the organization and not just a

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