African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4194

Full Length Research Paper

Organizational learning in the petrochemical industry: A case study of Kermanshah Petrochemical Company

Yukabead Beik Khakhian1, Mohammad Javad Naeiji2, Nima Saeedi3 and Mansooreh  Abbasalizadeh4
  1Department of Industry Management, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran. 2Department of Public Management, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. 3,4Young Research Club, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Iran.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 13 December 2010
  •  Published: 04 May 2011

Abstract

 

In the year 2002, Templeton, Lewis and Schneider provided (design) a model of (for) designing organization measurement. “Organization learning is the collection of achieving, offering and interpreting knowledge as well as related information and therefore improving the organization’s memory that results in positive organization changes knowingly and unknowingly”. This research takes advantages of the Templeton model. The main aim of this project is to measure (and) analyze the level of organization learning and offer ways of promotion in Kermanshah Petrochemical Company. For the comparison between two separate society women and men, comparison between the employee with bachelor degree and that with MA, and the comparison between Kermanshah Petrochemical Company and 119 American companies have been done with the Mann-Whitney Test.  For the comparison between two separate society employees with different experience and age, the Kruskal-Wallis Test was used. Confidence interval based on T-test was used to measure the difference between value of organizational learning factors and favorable average value. Thus, Mann-Whitney Test was employed for the purpose of comparison between two separate companies (that is, Kermanshah Petrochemical Company and 119 American companies). Eventually, the comparison between Kermanshah Petrochemical Industries Company and the average 119 American Companies as two separate society’s companies shows that there is no considerable difference between them.

 

Key words: Organizational learning, learning organization, Iran Petrochemical Industry.