Organizational Learning in the Hotel Industry: an eclectic instrument of measurement

Organizational Learning, despite being a widely debated topic in the literature on management, regarding the hotel industry still suffers from scattered information. This study was conducted with 295 professionals, among them managers and employees of hotels in Brazil and Portugal in order to va...

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Main Authors: Adriana L. Fernandes, Raul M. S. Laureano, Bráulio Alturas
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Language:English
Published: University of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURS 2018-04-01
Series:Tourism & Management Studies
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Online Access:https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/1004/pdf_95
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description Organizational Learning, despite being a widely debated topic in the literature on management, regarding the hotel industry still suffers from scattered information. This study was conducted with 295 professionals, among them managers and employees of hotels in Brazil and Portugal in order to validate a measuring instrument of organizational learning, properly adapted for hotel industry, and identify differences in the degree of efficiency of the organizational learning process between hotels of different categories, and between managers and employees. Initially a content validation with representatives of the hotel industry was made, then a confirmatory factor analysis was performed. As a result, we obtained a scale with 4 factors and 12 items, which was able to identify differences in the level of organizational learning between hotels and between managers and employees. There is evidence that the ability of individuals and groups to learn is encouraged, but is not being achieved in full in this industry, and that the most critical part of the process involves the dimension of creation and knowledge management in this industry.
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spelling doaj-art-725690afdcca49ff8bfbcdbadb440f012025-02-03T00:23:16ZengUniversity of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURSTourism & Management Studies2182-84662018-04-01142162510.18089/tms.2018.14202Organizational Learning in the Hotel Industry: an eclectic instrument of measurementAdriana L. Fernandes0Raul M. S. Laureano1Bráulio Alturas2Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), ISTAR-IUL, Lisboa, PortugalInstituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), ISTAR-IUL, Lisboa, PortugalInstituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), ISTAR-IUL, Lisboa, PortugalOrganizational Learning, despite being a widely debated topic in the literature on management, regarding the hotel industry still suffers from scattered information. This study was conducted with 295 professionals, among them managers and employees of hotels in Brazil and Portugal in order to validate a measuring instrument of organizational learning, properly adapted for hotel industry, and identify differences in the degree of efficiency of the organizational learning process between hotels of different categories, and between managers and employees. Initially a content validation with representatives of the hotel industry was made, then a confirmatory factor analysis was performed. As a result, we obtained a scale with 4 factors and 12 items, which was able to identify differences in the level of organizational learning between hotels and between managers and employees. There is evidence that the ability of individuals and groups to learn is encouraged, but is not being achieved in full in this industry, and that the most critical part of the process involves the dimension of creation and knowledge management in this industry.https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/1004/pdf_95organizational learninghotel industryconfirmatory factor analysisscale
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Organizational Learning in the Hotel Industry: an eclectic instrument of measurement
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hotel industry
confirmatory factor analysis
scale
title Organizational Learning in the Hotel Industry: an eclectic instrument of measurement
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hotel industry
confirmatory factor analysis
scale
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