Empowering Employees To Promote Organizational Learning

In contemporary business, the organizations are confronted to a fierce competition, within a highly changing environment. In response to these changes, learning appears as a vital key successful strategy that would increase the organizations‟ performance, sustain competitive advantage and thus guarantee its survival. Individuals are the core of the learning process. It‟s through individual learning that the organizations develop their organizational learning, which demonstrates the importance of the human resource management and its impact on promoting organizational learning. This research explores the impact of employee empowerment as a recent human resource management approach on the promotion of organizational learning. Using a hypothesis testing approach, this research aims to assess the impact of employee empowerment dimensions: meaningfulness, competence, choice and impact on promoting organizational learning within Algerian banks. A multiple regression analysis is conducted to explore the influential dimensions on organizational learning. With a response rate of 83%, results show that meaningfulness, competence and choice have a significant positive effect on banks‟ organizational learning. Competence is has strongest influence on promoting organizational learning. However, impact is found to have no effect on organizational learning. This research may be first of kind exploring the relationship between organizational learning and empowerment, studying the impact of the four dimensions on promoting learning within an Algerian business context. Finally, researchers provide some recommendations for banks‟ managers.