THE PERCEPTION ON ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING CAPABILITY. EVIDENCE FROM MALAYSIAN MANUFACTURING SMES

Abstract

The concept of organizational learning capability has received considerable attention in the management literature due to the superior learning capability have been recognized as the source of competitive advantage. For organisation to survive in global business environment, they must utilise their capacity to learn new practices and keep update with the business situation. To accelerate this transition required innovative strategies that highly depends on the capability of the management to motivate their employees to learn. Therefore, this study intends to report on the perceptions of manufacturing SMEs in Malaysia on organizational learning capability. There are 17 items on organizational learning capability that formed a part of a questionnaire using a five-point interval scale. A total of 168 respondents returned the questionnaires and was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) approach. The results of the study revealed that the respondents have positive perception on OLC.