Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview X. Non-Governmental Organizations in CEE Author(s) Corina Georgiana Antonovici National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Bucharest Romania Savulescu Carmen, Sandu Cristina, Title Nongovernmental and Public Organisations – Learning Organisations. Methods, Results and Impact File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Corina Georgiana Antonovici Abstract The Learning Organisation is the organisation that continuously learns and readapts. It is the place where employees constantly develop the capacity of generating the results they truly target, where new and bold thinking methods are encouraged, where collective aspirations are released and where people continuously discover how to learn together (Senge, 1990). This concept emerged in the corporations of the 1980s, but in the meantime it also became attractive for the nongovernmental sector. This paper analyses the extent to which the concept of ‘Learning Organisation’ exists in the nongovernmental and public sectors in Romania, the present learning capacity of the organisations in these two sectors and the impact this concept has on the organisations. As research instrument, the authors will employ the questionnaire designed by Bruce Britton (1998) ‘The Learning NGO’. This will be applied within minimum three NGOs and minimum three public organisations. The research questions to be addressed in this paper are: 1. What is the degree of use of the learning concept to support and facilitate the development of employees, organisation itself, institutions and local community? 2. What is the impact of the learning concept on the nongovernmental and public organisations? Keywords: Learning Organisation, nongovernmental sector, public sector
