Nursing Administration, Chiang Mai University, Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai, Thailand
A learning organisation is an organisation that learns powerfully and collectively and is continually transforming itself to better collect, manage and use knowledge for corporate success. It empowers people within and outside a company to learn as they work and integrate technology for learning and performance. The objectives of this predictive research were to determine factors predicting the learning organisation and to explore the problems and barriers toward the development of a learning organisation among knowledge management in hospitals participating in the knowledge management project in the lower northern region of Thailand. Subjects consisted of 461 members of a knowledge management team working in 17 hospitals participating in the knowledge management project. Purposive sampling was employed to select the subjects from each hospital: one subject had to be the chief knowledge management officer, one subject had to be the facilitator of the knowledge management and other Research instruments consisted of the Learning Organisation Profile, modified from the Learning Organisation Profile developed by Marquaedt, 1996, the Knowledge Management Assessment Tool (KMAT) developed by the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) and Arthur Andersen Co., Ltd. and translated into Thai by the Thailand Productivity Institute, the Knowledge Sharing Questionnaire developed by the researchers from the literature review, the Learning Climate Questionnaire (LCQ), developed by Bartram, Foster, Lindley, Brown and Nixon (1993), translated into Thai by the researcher, and the guidelines for focus group interview. The validity and reliability of the instruments were confirmed. Data analysis was determined by using descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The qualitative data was analysed using content analysis.