Linking organisational commitment with continuous learning through peripheral vision and procedural memory
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| Title: | Linking organisational commitment with continuous learning through peripheral vision and procedural memory |
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| Authors: | Cegarra Navarro, Juan Gabriel, Wensley, Anthony, Martínez Martínez, Aurora, García Pérez, Alexeis |
| Contributors: | Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Unión Europea, Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, DSpace Repositorio Digital UPCT |
| Source: | Repositorio Digital UPCT instname |
| Publisher Information: | Elsevier BV, 2020. |
| Publication Year: | 2020 |
| Subject Terms: | Procedural memory, Organización de Empresas, 53 Ciencias Económicas, 8. Economic growth, 0502 economics and business, 05 social sciences, Organisational commitment, Peripheral vision, EMJ, Continuous learning |
| Description: | Under some circumstances such as the lack of commitment of peers or the imposition of excessive authority, many employees tend to turn a blind eye to either the development of new, more effective procedures or recognise that new or modified customer needs have developed. In these situations, organisational commitment is a preliminary step not only to the effective implementation of current procedures but also to questioning values of the organisation and future needs of customers. This study proposes that organisational commitment helps alleviate these problems by maintaining an ambidextrous perspective between procedural memory and peripheral vision to promote continuous learning. This research has therefore been conducted to explain both conceptually and empirically how peripheral vision could interact with and influence procedural memory, and hence facilitate continuous learning (CL) within the business. While peripheral vision is often associated with developing and supporting knowledge structures for the exploration of new opportunities and with identifying and addressing new clients, many consider these knowledge structures as examples of organisational routines and procedures, and thus as aspects of the ‘procedural memory’ of an organisation. To contribute to the understanding of these relationships, this study addresses two questions: (1) Are outcomes of CL processes within the organisation determined by the presence of organisational procedural memory – both skills and knowledge, and (2) Does an improved peripheral vision result in higher levels of learning? After using PLS-SEM on a sample of 203 employees of Spanish banks, our findings support the theory that peripheral vision facilitates the emergence of new and unconventional behaviours within a culture, which in turn has a positive effect on the firm’s continuous learning. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad of the Spanish Government for financing the research project ECO2017-88987-R (MINECO/FED-ER;UE), cofinanced from the European Union FEDER funds. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 0263-2373 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.emj.2020.05.003 |
| Access URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10317/16996 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237320300761 https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/linking-organisational-commitment-with-continuous-learning-throug https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/linking-organisational-commitment-with-continuous-learning-though https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237320300761 https://hdl.handle.net/10317/16996 |
| Rights: | Elsevier TDM CC BY NC ND |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....455ce89bd1872e92eae6e1028c8cc9d3 |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Under some circumstances such as the lack of commitment of peers or the imposition of excessive authority, many employees tend to turn a blind eye to either the development of new, more effective procedures or recognise that new or modified customer needs have developed. In these situations, organisational commitment is a preliminary step not only to the effective implementation of current procedures but also to questioning values of the organisation and future needs of customers. This study proposes that organisational commitment helps alleviate these problems by maintaining an ambidextrous perspective between procedural memory and peripheral vision to promote continuous learning. This research has therefore been conducted to explain both conceptually and empirically how peripheral vision could interact with and influence procedural memory, and hence facilitate continuous learning (CL) within the business. While peripheral vision is often associated with developing and supporting knowledge structures for the exploration of new opportunities and with identifying and addressing new clients, many consider these knowledge structures as examples of organisational routines and procedures, and thus as aspects of the ‘procedural memory’ of an organisation. To contribute to the understanding of these relationships, this study addresses two questions: (1) Are outcomes of CL processes within the organisation determined by the presence of organisational procedural memory – both skills and knowledge, and (2) Does an improved peripheral vision result in higher levels of learning? After using PLS-SEM on a sample of 203 employees of Spanish banks, our findings support the theory that peripheral vision facilitates the emergence of new and unconventional behaviours within a culture, which in turn has a positive effect on the firm’s continuous learning.<br />The authors gratefully acknowledge the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad of the Spanish Government for financing the research project ECO2017-88987-R (MINECO/FED-ER;UE), cofinanced from the European Union FEDER funds. |
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| ISSN: | 02632373 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.emj.2020.05.003 |