Are organisational defensive routines harmful to the relationship between personality and organisational learning?

Yang, Yumei, Secchi, Davide and Homberg, Fabian (2018) Are organisational defensive routines harmful to the relationship between personality and organisational learning? Journal of Business Research, 85, 155-164. (doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.12.036).

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Abstract

This paper examines the interaction effect between a selection of personality traits — i.e. conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism — and organisational defensive routines (ODRs) on organisational learning. The data sample included 351 employees from a wide range of industries in the UK. In line with the current literature, we hypothesized that ODRs act as a moderator between selected employee personality traits and learning. Though the findings do not support our hypotheses on the moderation effects, we could isolate an unexpected positive link between ODRs and organisational learning which merits attention and further research. Implications for the theory and limitations of the study are discussed.

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