The relationship between organizational learning and personnel readiness for change in insurance companies

Afjei, Seyyed Ali Akbar; Rezaee Abyaneh, Neda

The relationship between organizational learning and personnel readiness for change in insurance companies

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Seyyed Ali Akbar Afjei ¹

Neda Rezaee Abyaneh ²

¹ Professor of Allameh Tabataba'i University

² M.A in Business Management, Insurance Management Major, Allameh Tabataba'i University, school of Management & Accounting

Abstract

Considering the importance of learning organization and readiness for change, current study has been done to examine the relationship between organizational learning and readiness for change according to the dimensions of learning organization in the insurance industry. The statistical population for this study is private insurance companies in Iran. 110 managers of these companies were selected as the case study. To collect data, Watkins`s and Marsick`s DLOQ (dimensions of the learning organization questionnaires), and also Dunham`s et al questionnaire were used. To test hypothesis with regard to the questionnaire data, Test Kolmogorov-Smirnov, T-test student, structural equations test were used. Findings suggest that there is organizational learning culture in insurance companies, so that different dimensions of organizational learning in insurance companies are above average. Considering the total results of hypothesis tests and also with regard to the standard regression coefficient, it can be argued that the relationship between organizational learning and readiness for change in private insurance companies is not in good condition, particularly in relation to the dimension of promote inquiry and dialogue, which is one of the important dimensions of the model

Keywords

organizational learning

Readiness for change

Learning organization