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• W599461041 abstract "This research aimed at developing a framework for measuring and enhancing thelearning capability of construction contractors. Construction contractors' learningrelates to how they imbibe knowledge and other stimuli from their internal andexternal business environments and how the acquired knowledge is applied to meetthe challenges of current and future business environments.The general study of learning antecedents for construction contractors has mainlyfocused on training of employees. Equally, a lack of a methodology for measuring thelearning capability of a company has been one of the main problems for implementingorganisational learning within companies. However, this research is the first attemptto provide the antecedents for learning of construction contractors as entities. Theoutcome of which is a learning framework for auditing learning capabilities ofconstruction contractors as one of the significant contribution to this research. Thelearning framework should provide construction executives with the means formeasuring the extent to which learning takes place in their corporate establishments.This should promote proactive interventions for continuous improvement of theirbusiness processes.The developed learning framework maps ten core learning processes i.e. learningdimensions that influence the learning of construction contractors and addressesimprovement through: individual learning; the use of teams; internal sharing ofknowledge; learning from reviews; integrating work and learning; undertakinginvestigations within or with others; learning from or with others; continuous renewalof business processes; search for new development; and acquiring a capability toidentify and respond to future possible business processes. Parallel to these learningdimensions, this research has identified eight factors that are required if a constructioncontractor is to achieve double loop or generative learning. The factors are aimed at providing senior construction executives with proactive intervention strategies toovercome specific barriers to learning within their own organisations. Such factorsinclude: objective progress on learning demonstrated through the measurement ofbusiness processes; climate of openness; committed leadership to learning; rewardinginnovations; shared vision; systems thinking; personal mastery; and mental modelling.Traditionally, measures of performance have heavily relied on financial indictors.However, such measures often only indicate the level of performance rather thanexplain the contributing factors. Consequently, the learning framework shouldprovide a composite measure to traditional financial measures for constructioncontractors for assessment of their learning capabilities. The objective of thedeveloped learning framework is to encourage a proactive stance when addressingimprovement of construction contractors for the purpose of meeting the challenges ofthe evolving business environment.The link between construction contractors' learning and the factors that set thecondition for double loop or generative learning were found to exhibit satisfactorylevels of reliability and validity. Equally, construction contractors' learning increasedwith performance in terms of average profit and turnover per employee from theempirical analysis.The learning mechanisms by which construction contractors address theirimprovement by imbibing knowledge from their internal and external businessenvironments were identified and ranked according to the various learningdimensions. The relationships between application of learning mechanisms wereexamined in order to enriched the understanding of learning practices of large andmedium construction contractors." @default.
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