<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Employees with their knowledge, skills, behavior and personal traits impact the organizational learning. The concept of organizational mental map and conative competences, as inborn underlying characteristic that is influenced by employees being involved as well as endogenous and exogenous factors, is presented. Three Slovene small to mid-sized companies were studied in respect to the individual factors, especially conative competences, of their employees. The study suggests that conative side of mind and thus conative competences can actually influence the organizational learning. What matters in contemporary management practice is how hidden potentials are set free and how they intrinsically motivate employees according to their personal differences in capabilities. As conative competences are inborn and can not be learned but only encouraged, contrary to cognitive competences, it is important to better understand employees' personal traits.</p></abstract>

Employees with their knowledge, skills, behavior and personal traits impact the organizational learning. The concept of organizational mental map and conative competences, as inborn underlying characteristic that is influenced by employees being involved as well as endogenous and exogenous factors, is presented. Three Slovene small to mid-sized companies were studied in respect to the individual factors, especially conative competences, of their employees. The study suggests that conative side of mind and thus conative competences can actually influence the organizational learning. What matters in contemporary management practice is how hidden potentials are set free and how they intrinsically motivate employees according to their personal differences in capabilities. As conative competences are inborn and can not be learned but only encouraged, contrary to cognitive competences, it is important to better understand employees' personal traits.

Organizational Mental Map and Conative Competences

Vocational College for Catering and Tourism Bled, Prešernova 32, 4260 Bled, Slovenia

Faculty of Management Koper, University of Primorska, Cankarjeva 5, pp. 345, 6104, Koper, Slovenia

Organizacija

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Employees with their knowledge, skills, behavior and personal traits impact the organizational learning. The concept of organizational mental map and conative...

Organizational Mental Map and Conative Competences

Published Online: Dec 12, 2008

Page range: 127 - 135

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10051-008-0014-6

Keywords
organizational learning, SME, conation, conative competences, organizational mental map

This content is open access.

Organizational Mental Map and Conative Competences

Published Online: Dec 12, 2008

Page range: 127 - 135

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10051-008-0014-6

Keywordsorganizational learning, SME, conation, conative competences, organizational mental map

This content is open access.

Keywords
organizational learning, SME, conation, conative competences, organizational mental map