The Learning Organization: Volume 28 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Karen E. Watkins, Victoria J. Marsick, Beixi Li

Providing strategic leadership for learning: optimizing managerial coaching to build learning organizations

Andrea D. Ellinger, Alexander E. Ellinger

The purpose of this paper and the contribution to this special issue is to build on Kim and Watkins’ (2018) recent finding that ‘leaders mentor and coach those they lead’ is the…

Is the DLOQ learning-oriented leadership isomorphic? Learning-oriented leadership mediates hierarchical teams’ learning dimensions

Christina Stothard

Learning organizations are often theorized at a team level, yet there is a lack of team-level studies. This study aims to evaluate if team-level dimensions of a learning…

Conceptualization and challenges: examining district and school leadership and schools as learning organizations

Richard Welsh, Sheneka Williams, Karen Bryant, Jami Berry

Conceptualizing schools as learning organizations provides a potential avenue to meet the pressing challenges of school improvement in the USA. District and school leaders play an…

Examining schools as learning organizations: an integrative approach

Zhaohui Sheng, Sandra Watkins, Seung Won Yoon, JoHyun Kim

The purpose of this study is to examine the applicability of Watkins and Marsick’s model of learning organization in the school context and explore the relationship between the…

A measure of adaptive performance and the DLOQ

Kyoungshin Kim

This study aims to introduce adaptive performance as an organizational performance dimension and examine the possible dynamics between the dimensions of a learning organization…

Full-service restaurants as learning organizations: a multiple-site case study

Mark Boccia, Maria Cseh

This study aims to explore how Watkins and Marsick’s learning organization framework was enacted in the practices, structures and policies of non-chain US restaurants.

Learning organization as a framework for networks’ learning and collaboration

Khalil Dirani, Jack Baldauf, Zenon Medina-Cetina, Katya Wowk, Sharon Herzka, Ricardo Bello Bolio, Victor Gutierrez Martinez, Luis Alberto Munoz Ubando

The purpose of this study was to use Watkins and Marsick model of a learning organization (1993, 1996), the dimensions of the learning organization questionnaire as a framework…

Implementing dimensions of a learning organization questionnaire: new insights

Nataša Rupčić

Workplace learning: how to build a culture of continuous employee development

Boyung Suh