Education in a workplace from the perspective of a learning organization

Abstract

Problems concerning the dilemmas of functioning and development of contemporary companies are of an interdisciplinary character. These problems are considered by such disciplines as: economy, management sciences, sociology, psychology, and pedagogy as well. This article was prepared taking into account the perspective of a sub-scientific discipline – work pedagogy, which subject is education of a person in the course of professional life. Such a subject opens a wide area of issues connected with different fieldsof pedagogical work. One of such issues is education in work places, which is connected with the concept of a learning organization developed in the management sciences. The aim of the article is to present chosen results of own research concerning the implementation of a learning organization model by companies, especially in the context of education run by them. In the research, according to the applied methodology, after specifying aims and the subject of the research, a critical analysis of literature was used, a diagnostic survey as well as some statistical methods. Results of the research allowed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the gathered material. The conducted own research, ran within the area of cognitive research, was conducted mainly with the strategy of quantitative research, included also elements of qualitative strategy. Important for the research conduct was triangulation of sources and methods. Based on the theoretical models of a learning organization available in the subject literature questionnaires for employees and employers were prepared. Moreover analysis of work places documentation connected with the area of education was conducted. The research involved 50 work places, 630 employees altogether at the area of one of the biggest cities in Poland - Bydgoszcz (the eight biggest city concerning the number of citizens).