Organizational E-Learning in the Covid-19 Pandemic Context: A Romanian Case-Study

Abstract

E-learning concepts gained significant importance in the last decade, tending to be more and more attractive to companies. E-learning has become a central scholastic and teaching instrument in the current business climate for the simple reason that corporations have adopted it as part of their business operations. The success of e-learning depends on how organizations support and train employees to use learning technologies. Other contributing forces enabling the use of e-learning include senior management commitment, user-friendly and effective courses, corporate investment in human capital, and organizational culture supporting innovations and changes. Since employees are the biggest asset of a company, the more they are qualified, the better it is for any organization to boost productivity and profitability. As employees become more satisfied with their jobs, they are more likely to work harder and therefore largely contribute to the company's success. This is how any business can start booming. All this happens because employees were empowered to go the extra mile and help their organization flourish. Because in the last year most companies embraced the "work from home" method, the management needed to take some measures and convert their usual teaching/learning techniques to online trainings. The current paper examines the impact of organizational e-learning on Romanian employees' productivity, performance, and skills. This study is supported by an innovative online survey from different Romanian public and private organizations and qualitative interviews with some of the participants. The results concluded there is a correlation between e-learning usage and job productivity, performance, and satisfaction. Also, the advantages, the drawbacks of e- learning and the key factors for implementing it successfully were underlined in this paper.