Abstract:
I t is generally accepted among scholars that individual learning and team learning
contribute to the concept we refer to as organizational learning. However, a small number
of quantitative and qualitative studies that have investigated their relationship reported
contradicting results. This thesis investigated the relationship between individual
learning, team learning, and organizational learning. A survey instrument was used to
collect information on individual learning, team learning, and organizational learning.
The study sample comprised of supervisors from the clinical laboratories in teaching
hospitals and community hospitals in Ontario.
The analyses utilized a linear regression to investigate the relationship between
individual and team learning. The relationship between individual and organizational
learning, and team and organizational learning were simultaneously investigated with
canonical correlation and set correlation. T-test and multivariate analysis of variance
were used to compare the differences in learning scores of respondents employed by
laboratories in teaching and those employed by community hospitals. The study validated
its tests results with 1,000 bootstrap replications.
Results from this study suggest that there are moderate correlations between
individual learning and team learning. The correlation individual learning and
organizational learning and team learning and organizational learning appeared to be
weak. The scores of the three learning levels show statistically significant differences
between respondents from laboratories in teaching hospitals and respondents from
community hospitals.
