Relations between the patterns of managerial competence formation and organisational learning cultures in the big business structure

Abstract

Business organisations today face increasingly complex management challenges in the all fields of activities from the strategical management, competition strategies to the social and cultural responsibilities of the enterprises in the modern and changing society. It implies growing importance of the formation of the managerial competences and of the outcomes of this process. Diversity of the challenges, strategies and fields of activities creates wide range of the possible types or patterns of the formation of managerial competences in the enterprises, beginning from the fast-track approach based on the selection and recruitment of the most gifted graduates of the universities or the recruitment of the ‚oven-ready‘ managers from the other companies and ending with the growing and nurturing of the managerial talents from the internal human resources of the enterprises with the help of the continuing training, career management and succession planning, etc. (Brown, Hesketh, 2004). Formation of the managerial competences in the enterprises can not be separated from the organizational learning processes and, in particular, from the various types and modes of the organizational learning cultures which define the norms, ways and the possibilities to develop the competences for the all employees in the organisation. This paper seeks to examine some relationships between the formation of the managerial competences and organisational learning cultures in the case of big business structure in Lithuania. There can be discerned the following research questions: How the different patterns of managerial competences formation interrelate with the organisational learning cultures and what are the outcomes of these relations? How the organisational learning cultures can foster and enhance the processes of the formation of managerial competences?[...]