Organizational learning in higher education institutions: A case study of a public university in Vietnam. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the limited previous research on organizational learning in higher education by examining the impact of employee participation on the organizational learning process and the relationship between. | Journal of Economics and Development, , , August 2016, pp. 88-104 ISSN 1859 0020 Organizational Learning in Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study of A Public University in Vietnam Pham Thi Bich Ngoc National Economics University, Vietnam Email: ngocpb@ Tran Quang Huy Post and Telecommunication Institute of Technology, Vietnam Email: huytq@ Abstract Organizational learning has been discussed by a number of scholars. However, few of them have empirically addressed the issue in an educational context. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the limited previous research on organizational learning in higher education by examining the impact of employee participation on the organizational learning process and the relationship between the organizational learning process and performance of a public university in Vietnam. A survey of 136 employees of a public university in Hanoi, targeted at managers, lecturers and researchers having more than a 5-year working experience, was conducted in 2015. Multiple regression techniques were used to analyse the data. The study findings indicate that the organizational learning process is positively influenced by employee participation in decisionmaking and significantly associates with the performance of the university. Keywords: Organizational learning; higher education; public university. Journal of Economics and Development 88 Vol. 18, , August 2016 1. Introduction nizations promote learning. We then propose and test several hypotheses about the role of the processas the mediator of employee participation in decision-making and performance using data collected from 136 employees in a public university in Vietnam. Finally, our findings and the implications for further study are discussed. Recently, organizational learning has been a big concern and has been studied by various scholars and practitioners (Bapuji and Crossan, 2004). Previous findings show that organizational .
