The Relationship between Organization Learning and Labor Productivity: A Research in Automotive Sector

Abstract

Improving productivity by moving beyond the classical organizational design is one of the research areas for years and several methods have been proposed to make particularly human resources more productive. One of the most important organizational methods is organizational learning. It is assumed that a productive workforce would contribute to organizational learning and this learning would increase the workforce productivity. Departing from this point, the purpose of this study is to examine how four organizations in the Turkish Automative Sector are impacted by workforce productivity through the learning curves of these organizations between the years of 1999 and 2018. The findings of the study showed that it is not possible to consier the two organizations as the learning organization while the other two organizations are learning organizations. Additionally, as the workforce productivity increases, the organizational learning level increases. Another important finding from this study is that the organizational learning in organizations does not increase by time.

Keywords

• Learning
• Learning organizations
• Productivity
• Labor productivity
• Automotive Sector
• Turkey

İşgücü Verimliliği ve Öğrenen Örgüt İlişkisi: Otomotiv Sektöründe Bir Araştırma

Abstract

Klasik örgüt tasarımının ötesine geçerek verimliliği artırmaya çalışmak yıllardır araştırmacıların inceleme konuları arasındadır. Özellikle insan kaynaklarının daha verimli hale getirilebilmesi için bir takım yöntemler ortaya atılmıştır. Bu örgütsel yöntemlerin en önemlilerinden birisi ise örgütsel öğrenmedir. Verimli olan işgücünün daha fazla örgütsel öğrenmeye katkı sunacağı ve öğrendikçe de işgücü verimliliğinin arttığı faydalı bir döngünün oluşacağı düşünülmektedir. Bu noktadan hareketle Türkiye Otomotiv Sektöründe otomobil üreten dört işletmenin 1999-2018 yılı arasındaki öğrenme eğrilerini ortaya çıkararak işgücü verimliliğinden nasıl etkilendiğini ortaya koymak amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre iki işletme genel olarak öğrenen örgüt iken diğer iki işletmeyi öğrenen örgüt olarak kabul etmek mümkün değildir. Ayrıca işgücü verimliliği arttıkça örgütsel öğrenme düzeyi de artmaktadır. Son olarak işletmelerde yıllar geçtikçe örgütsel öğrenmenin artmadığı elde edilen önemli bir diğer sonuçtur. 

Keywords

• Öğrenme
• Öğrenen organizasyonlar
• Verimlilik
• İşgücü verimliliği
• Otomotiv sektörü
• Türkiye

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