Dimensões da aprendizagem em organizações: validação do Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ) no contexto brasileiro
01 Jan 2011-RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie)-Vol. 12, Iss: 2, pp 4-29
TL;DR: The Dloq-A has been used in a recent study as discussed by the authors, in which the authors present validez convergente y discriminante, fiabilidad and valideza de criterio, ademas de ser parsimonioso.
Abstract: Este articulo describe los resultados de un estudio cuyo objetivo ha sido validar la escala de medida de la cultura del aprendizaje y su relacion con el desempeno en la organizacion brasilena. El instrumento dimensions of the learning organization questionnaire (Dloq) o cuestionario de las dimensiones de la organizacion que aprende, propuesto por Marsick e Watkins (2003) fue traducido de la lengua inglesa a la portuguesa, y enseguida fue realizada una validacion semantica. El cuestionario fue contestado por 566 empleados de una organizacion del sector electrico. Los datos fueron recogidos en la intranet de la organizacion estudiada, en el segundo semestre de 2005. El instrumento, en su version completa, posee 55 items, de los cuales 43 son de la cultura del aprendizaje y 12 del desempeno organizacional. El referencial teorico discute, inicialmente, conceptos de la cultura del aprendizaje organizacional y ensena estudios que utilizaron el Dloq en otros contextos. Despues, fueron discutidos conceptos del desempeno organizacional usados por Marsick y Watkins (2003) en la construccion del instrumento. La aplicacion del Dloq en el contexto brasileno en su version completa presento una validez convergente y fiabilidad adecuada, sin embargo no presento una vali-dez discriminante (CORREA; GUIMARAES, 2006). Para resolver este problema, el estudio ha utilizado una version simple de este instrumento, creada por Yang (2003), llamado por ella de Dloq-A. Esta version es compuesta por 27 items distribuidos en siete dimensiones de la cultura del aprendizaje - oportunidades para el aprendizaje continuo, cuestionamiento y dialogo, colaboracion y aprendizaje en equipo, sistemas para capturar y compartir el aprendizaje, delegacion del poder y responsabilidad, desarrollo de la vision sistemica de la organizacion y estimulo al liderazgo estrategico para el aprendizaje - y en dos dimensiones del desempeno organizacional - desempeno financiero y lo que fue regalado como conocimiento organizacional. Los resultados del estudio presentaron validez convergente y discriminante, fiabilidad y validez de criterio, ademas de ser parsimonioso. De esta manera, se concluye que el Dloq-A tiene validez en el contexto brasileno. Los resultados de la encuesta ensenan que la cultura del aprendizaje explica 43% de varianza en el desempeno organizacional.
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