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Evaluation of British Petroleum's Learning Effectiveness

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Evaluation of British Petroleum's Learning Effectiveness 1. Introduction Organization learning plays an important role in organizational survival, growth, and developing in the increasingly changing environment. (Popper& Lipshitz, 2000) Expect responding to the changing environment (Dodgson, 1993), organizational learning also contributes to the participant of employees' thinking and their commitments (Senge, 1990), with a consequential result of a long-term development of the organization. (Kloot, 1996) Nowadays, more and more researchers have exploited a number of issues on transforming corporations into learning organizations which embrace learning at all levels. (Stewart, 2001; Pedler, Burgoyne & Boydell, 1991) According to Senge (1996, p.35), learning organization is defined as "in which learning becomes institutionalized as an inescapable way of life for managers and worker alike". As one of the biggest organizations in the world, British Petroleum (BP) has regarded itself as a learning organization that tried to be adapted and responsive to the changing environment through learning. (Prokesch,...

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