The impact of organizational learning on organizational effectiveness: a field study in government and private hospitals in Taiz city

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the level of practicing the dimensions of organizational effectiveness as well as the dimensions of organizational learning in the private government hospitals in Taiz city. The study also aimed to identify the impact of organizational learning with its dimensions (individual learning, group learning, organizational learning) together and separately on organizational effectiveness. The descriptive analytical approach was used, a questionnaire was used to collect data on the research topic, which was distributed to a sample selected according to the stratified random sampling method. Structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was also used to analyze the study hypotheses. The results showed that the level of practicing organizational effectiveness in the hospitals under study is high, and the level of practicing the dimensions of organizational learning is high. The results also showed that organizational learning has a statistically significant effect on organizational effectiveness. The dimensions of organizational learning also affect organizational effectiveness, as the impact coefficient reached (0.56, 0.36, 0.029) for both group learning and organizational learning as well as individual learning, respectively, and it is statistically significant for both group and organizational learning and not statistically significant for personal learning.