1.4. Limitation of the Study
Learning organizations support flat hierarchical structures. The senior management staff
consists of a small number. It was also revealed during the course of collecting data from
the organizations in Pakistan that these multinational companies have their Head Offices
in other countries and therefore, just few of senior management were accessible.
However, this does not affect the results of this study as the level of authority and
management styles are identical in such organizations having well defined processes and
procedures and well established Standard Operating Procedures.
Another limitation of the study was that conventional organizations were mostly
in one city that is Peshawar and the Learning Organizations taken were from other cities
of Pakistan. This also could have influenced the responses of the individuals due to the
difference in the external business market in terms of the level of skill availability and
market demand. This influence was minimized by mostly selecting Government and
Semi Government organizations for the conventional category of organizations having
same procedures and almost similar kind of internal work environment throughout
Pakistan.