LASU Journal of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
(LJERHRM)
ISSN: 2705-3482
Volume 1, No. 1, December 2018
Pages 284-293
DOI: 10.36108/ljerhrm/8102.01.0113
EXPLORING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
AKINBOLA Olufemi Amos1, ALAKA, Nureni Sanusi2, SANNI, Sekinat Arike3
Department of Business Administration, College of Management Sciences, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta1
Department of Business Administration, Lagos State University, Ojo.2 Department of Digital and Data Driven Marketing, University of Southampton, United Kingdom3.
akinbolaoa@funaab.edu.ng1, alaka_jnr@yahoo.com2, sekinatsanni@yahoo.com3
Abstract
International Corporations globally are seeking ways of being ahead of other competitors in the industry of operations. Companies ranging from production to service firms in globally strive harder to meet the challenges posed to them by environmental changes. Also the consulting industry is an integral part of service industry due to the sum they contribute to the growth of the economy. The study tried to situate positions whether organizational learning could serve as a strategic tool for enhancing organizational performance as regards employee commitment and organizational competitiveness. 240 copies of questionnaire were administered to selected international audit service firms considered for the study in Nigeria to get primary data that treated appropriate research questions and hypotheses were tested accordingly. The study found that opportunity for individual learning makes employees in the global firms to be committed and that organizational conditioning has significant effect on competiveness. The study recommends that international service firms should endeavour to direct more resources to the area of organizational learning in order for them to be able to achieve better global industry relevance.
Keywords: Organizational Learning, Organizational Competiveness, Commitment, Corporate Performance