International Journal of Research Studies in Management
CollabWritive Special Issue
2024 Volume 12 Issue 1
Available Online: 2 March 2024
Author/s:
Bin, Lyu
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas, Philippines
Abstract:
Fostering an organizational learning culture is essential if the firm wants to remain competitive. It goes beyond just the management of the organization offering fresh concepts. Organizational culture, knowledge sharing and employee innovative performance all play an important role in organizational learning. This study aimed to analyze the organizational culture, knowledge sharing and employee innovative performance as basis for developing organizational learning framework for machine manufacturing industry in Shandong province. A descriptive approach was used in this study to systematically define the conditions, and assess the variables that were examined. The research respondents are 385 employees who are purposively selected from machine manufacturing companies in Shandong Province. A survey questionnaire was used for data collection which was subsequently analyzed using the SPSS software. Based on the finding of the study, the respondents showed a moderate level of agreement on organizational culture in terms of institutional, technical and relational aspects implying that there is some room for improvement in terms of developing a strong and well-defined culture. The machine manufacturing company exhibits good knowledge sharing practices in terms of social, managerial and cultural as agreed by the respondents. Employees of the machine manufacturing companies are showing satisfactory innovative performance in terms of job autonomy, innovative behavior and expertise learning. There were high significant relationships that exist among organizational culture, knowledge sharing and employee innovative performance. An Organizational Learning Framework for machine manufacturing industry was proposed.
Keywords: organizational learning, organizational culture, knowledge sharing, employee innovative performance, machine manufacturing industry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2024.1001
Cite this article:
Bin, L. (2024). Organizational culture, knowledge sharing and employee innovative performance: Basis for machine manufacturing industry organizational learning framework. International Journal of Research Studies in Management, 12(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2024.1001