Abstract:
Learning rapidly and competently has become a preeminent strategy for
improving organizational performance in the new knowledge era. Improving dynamic
learning capability is an exclusive strategy for corporate success in construction
industry. Thus, building contractors should implement organizational learning to
accomplish a state of readiness for change and develop a competence to respond and
identify future business potentials. The purpose of this research is to analyze the
relationship between organization al learning constructs and the learning outcome,
performance improvement, and assess the existing practices of organization al learning
in order to reach alearning organization status in building contractors of the Turkish
Construction Industry. The research involves a questionnaire survey conducted to the
building contractors on organizational learning constructs and performance
improvement. The researclı findings support the contribution of organizational
learning and its positive influence on performance improvement in construction. The
study commences on how all the constructs can be implemented and continuously
improved by building contractors white transforming into learning organizations.
