Creating a Work Environment Conducive to Organizational Learning

Abstract

Through organizational learning, health care teams can consistently provide excellent patient care in a complex and changing environment. Nurse managers, educators, and other leaders can facilitate organizational learning within their teams by promoting certain contextual factors in the clinical work environment. This article provides an overview of contextual factors associated with organizational learning, includes practice-based examples of these factors, and offers evidence-based recommendations for creating a learning-focused work environment. [ J Contin Educ Nurs . 2021;52(6):281–285.]

Contextual factors associated with organizational learning in hospitals: An instrument development study

“…Once a baseline has been established, the nurse manager can use the results to guide focused efforts to improve the unit's context. For example, if the results indicate team members generally feel a sense of shared purpose and motivation but lack psychologically safe relationships, the nurse manager could model and encourage empathy, open communication, error reporting and civility (Lyman, Biddulph, et al, 2021). The OLI‐C could then be used to evaluate the effectiveness of particular interventions and administered on a regular basis to assess overall progress towards the desired unit context.…”

“…These findings indicate there is close alignment between the OLI-C's theoretical factor structure, and the data's empirical factor structure, supporting the instrument as a valid mechanism for informing and testing the underlying theoretical model. reporting and civility (Lyman, Biddulph, et al, 2021). The OLI-C could then be used to evaluate the effectiveness of particular interventions and administered on a regular basis to assess overall progress towards the desired unit context.…”

“…Effective leadership is foundational to the organizational learning process (e.g. Ishii et al, 2020; Vallina et al, 2019), with nurse leaders in particular creating organizational contexts conducive to organizational learning (Lyman et al, 2020; Lyman, Biddulph, et al, 2021; Lyman, Horton, & Oman, 2021).…”

Developmental stages associated with organizational learning in hospitals: An instrument development study

“…Additionally, the OLI‐DS may facilitate studying concepts related to organizational learning that have a developmental basis. For example, the OLI‐DS could offer insights about how hospital units develop a work environment (Lyman et al, 2021), organizational culture (Arefin et al, 2021; Keliat & Hariyati, 2019), organizational context (Lyman et al, 2019; Moafimadani et al, 2020) or organizational climate (Ishii et al, 2020) to build their capacity for organizational learning.…”

The influence of organizational learning and external cooperation configuration on enterprise technological innovation: A study based on fsQCA approach

“…Hence, organizational learning affects the technological innovation of enterprises [1,2]. Previous research has validated organizational learning as an effective way for organizations to improve technological innovation [3][4][5], and promoted enterprise innovation performance [6]. However, some scholars posit that the process and content of organizational learning are distinct, and that the technological innovation of enterprises is quite different.…”