Management & Change
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 1

Construction of a Learning Enabling Structure Scale (LESS)

  • Author:
  • Bijaya Mishra, A. Uday Bhaskar, Amulya Khurana
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 33 to 42

Abstract

The structure of an organization represents the building block on which it rests. It contains a myriad of jobs, departments, divisions, employee interactions, and so on. Thus, any change in organizational identity requires simultaneous modifications in its structure. In order to make an organization a ‘learning organization’, the organizational structure and processes underlying it need to be facilitators of learning. The objective of the present study is to develop a scale to measure the dimensions of learning enabling structure. A pool of twenty three items was formulated and tested on a sample of randomly selected 213 executives from IT organizations. Reliability and validity of the scale were duly established. The final scale consists of thirteen items, with a six point Likert type format.