Adaptive network modeling of the influence of leadership and communication on learning within an organization
Debby Bouma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Gülay Canbaloğlu (Koç University, Student TU Delft)
J. Treur (TU Delft - Safety and Security Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Anna Wiewiora (Queensland University of Technology)
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Abstract
This research addresses the influence of leadership and communication on learning within an organisation by direct mutual interactions in dyads. This is done in combination with multilevel organizational learning as an alternative route, which includes feed forward and feedback learning. The results show that effective communication (triggered by the active team leader, and/or by natural, informal communication), leads to a faster learning process within an organization compared to the longer route via feed forward and feedback formal organisational learning. However, this more direct form of bilateral learning in general may take more of the employee's time, as a quadratic number of dyadic interactions in general is less efficient than a linear number of interactions needed for feed forward and feedback organisational learning.
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