Managerial Skills and Organizational Learning in SMES of Pakistan
Keywords:
Organizational Learning, Managers’ Skills, Human Skill, Conceptual Skill, SMEsAbstract
The paper is based on the proposed model of Robert Katz (1955) for managerial skills. Further Marquardt (2006) research tool is adopted to test the Jandaghi et al (2009) hypotheses. The objective of this research is to find the relationship between managers’ skills and organizational learning in the context of Pakistan’s SME business sector. The research finding showed that human skills have significant effect on organizational learning however conceptual skills also partly desirable. The results also demonstrated that among the conceptual, human and technical skills; human skill has more meaningful share in the process of organizational learning.
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