Identifying the stage of growth in the organisational learning capacity of universities

Mireia Tintoré, Albert Arbós

Abstract


In order to improve university government and management, in this article we propose a tool for identifying the stage of growth in the organisational learning capacity of a university. It consists of a questionnaire about the main factors affecting learning in a university as a whole, or in any of its units (faculties, departments, etc.). An analysis of the results will enable us to act upon them and make improvements.


Keywords


organisational learning, stages of learning capacity, learning universities

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/rusc.v10i2.1330

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