Organizational Mental Map and Conative Competences

• Authors: Darko Kovač , Andrej Bertoncelj
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

organizational learning; SME; conation; conative competences; organizational mental map

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 127-135

Dates

published

2008-07-01

online

2008-12-12

Contributors

author

Darko Kovač

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

author

Andrej Bertoncelj

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-008-0014-6