| dc.description.abstract | Every organization, whether service, government or nonprofit has limited resources, and
the effective and efficient use of these limited resources will greatly determine which
organizations will survive in the future, hence the concept of organizational learning. This
study, therefore, attempts to establish the extent to which international donor agencies in
Nairobi have embraced the features/characteristics of a learning organization established
through organizational learning process.
The study was carried out in international donor agencies with offices located in Nairobi. A
structured questionnaire was administered to managers and supervisory level staff from
these agencies since these are the people who are more likely to understand the issues
involved in organizational learning, and thus provide adequate responses to the
questionnaire. Chi-square tests were used to analyze the collected data.
The results indicated that donor agencies in Nairobi, despite their non-competitive nature,
have to some extent embraced the features/characteristics of a learning organization
through knowledge acquisition, information distribution and information interpretation. The
final part of the process, which is organizational memory is not so distinctly embraced as
yet as indicated by this study. The study also revealed that in some cases, the age,
position in the agency and education level of respondents determined the extent to which
aspects of organizational learning are embraced in the agencies. | en |
