The organizational learning process as a way to cope with uncertainty

Abstract

This paper assumes that increasing uncertainty is a very common condition in organizationsin the market space these days. The author points out that the organizational learning processis a way to cope with uncertainty. The author also presents the results of her research, whichconcerned the level of involvement of Polish firms in the implementation of the concept of organizationallearning. In the survey from 2010 she used the method of A.D. Garvin and others,which is based on self-assessment.

Authors and Affiliations

Grażyna Osbert-Pociecha

Keywords

Related Articles

Co-operative Management Report: before, during and after a crisis

In line with the presented main goal and its respective aims, the report describes the managementof co-operatives and also the organizational frames as well as the legal and formal regulationsof co-operatives. The report...

Entrepreneurship in the institutional context – few thoughts. [sub]Work on this publication has been financed from own research grant No N N112 305138 as a part of a pool of research grants for period between 2010-2015[/sub]

The article is an attempt to present the way, how institutional environment formsand influences entrepreneurship. The author basing on the resource-based view ofthe firm treats institutional environment as an institution...

Quality of Teaching and Research in Public Higher Education in Poland: Relationship with Financial Indicators and Effciency

Purpose: The article addressed the problem of relationships between university funding and effciency on the one hand and the quality of teaching and research on the other.

Towards Behaviorally Informed Public Interventions

Purpose: This article informs readers about the theoretical and practical origins of the behaviorally informed interventions (BIPI), analyzes examples of the BIPI from different policy sectors and strategies they offer f...

Reflections on professional engineering ethics – a personalistic perspective

PurposeThe article attempts to synthesize professional engineering ethics to find key characteristic features of a professional expert engineer and of a managing engineer, who do their duties on job contracts or as contr...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP79895
  • DOI -
  • Views 133
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Grażyna Osbert-Pociecha (2011). The organizational learning process as a way to cope with uncertainty. Journal of Management and Business Administration. Central Europe, 19(3), 49-62. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-79895