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Leadership and organizational learning in local administrative organizations: a multiple-case study of three towns in Croatia

The aim of the paper was to conduct a preliminary verification of theoretical postulates regarding correlation between the leadership and learning processes in administrative organizations. The basic research hypothesis is that inclination towards organizational learning is positively correlated with administrative leadership in Croatian local administrative organizations, notwithstanding other organizational and contextual variables, such as number of employees, professional training budget, organizational structure and ruling political party. In order to construct an empirical study, a multiple-case study in three Croatian city governments has been applied as the main methodological approach. The starting point of the research is based on three levels of learning in organizations (individual, group and organizational) as well as two processes of learning across different levels (feed-forward and feed-back processes), an organizational learning framework developed by M. M. Crossan et al. (1999). The main variables have been measured on the basis of civil servants’ perception of certain indicators of inclination towards organizational learning and administrative leadership in each organization. Accordingly, the data have been gathered by the survey conducted among the personnel of selected organizations. The results of correlation analysis between each level of learning in organization and each process of learning across the levels, on one hand, and administrative leadership, on the other, are presented in the paper. In accordance with the obtained results, specific recommendations for the organizations concerned as well as some general conclusions are provided.

leadership; organizational learning; local self-government; Croatia

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