Innovation Management in Defensive Organizations

Innovation Management in Defensive Organizations

A Model for Improving Organizational Learning Culture of the staff of Shahid Sattari Aeronautical University of Science and Technology

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Iman Ghasem abadi 1
mohsen zeraati 2
amir sadeghi 3
1 Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology
2 PhD student in Higher Education Management, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
3 Assistant professor of Shahid Sattari Aeronautical University of Science and Technology
10.22034/qjimdo.2020.213031.1246
Abstract
Abstract
Background & Purpose: Improving defense readiness, improving human resource infrastructure and developing a culture of learning and innovation are among the basic requirements of defense organizations. For this purpose, the present study aims to provide a model for improving organizational learning culture at the University of Aeronautical Engineering.
Methodology: The present study is an applied and explorative mixed method based. The statistical population of the study in both qualitative and quantitative stages included the faculty members of the University of Aviation and the statistical sample was selected by purposive non-probabilistic sampling. In the qualitative stage, 6 people and in the quantitative stage, 10 experts were used. In the present study, content analysis and MAXQDA software have been used to analyze qualitative data. In the quantitative part, Dematel-Ism method has been used to determine the degree of effectiveness and efficiency and to present the final pattern of improvement.
Findings: The final model of eight levels of systems thinking, safe work environment, reward, risk-taking and communication as influential factors and leadership factors, knowledge creation and sharing system, education, encouraging cooperation and group learning, futurism, strategic emphasis on outside the organization, common goals, Pragmatism, discretion and excess organizational capacity are formed as effective variables..
Conclusion:  The criterion of systemic thinking in the eighth level and the most effective criterion and organizational surplus capacity, encouraging cooperation and group learning and the system of creating and sharing knowledge were recognized as the most influential factors. Accordingly, managers should pay attention to the relationships between variables in the process of creating a learning culture.
Keywords
Culture
Organizational Learning
Risk-taking
Dematel- Interpretive Structural Modeling
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