The Correlation between the Learning Process within the Organization and its Performance

This paper is based on a research conducted between September 2011 and March 2012, in order to identify the position of the domestic organizations in their transition process to learning organizations. The study was based on a questionnaire addressed to several Romanian employees from all hierarchical levels and has 3 parts. The purpose of the first part, was to identify the position of the domestic organizations in their transition process to learning organizations. The second part measures the organizational performance through financial and non-financial indicators and the last part of the questionnaire aims to shape the profile of the respondents. The purpose of the research was to confirm or infirm several hypotheses regarding the correlation between the main features of the knowledge based organization and the organizational performance. This paper will present the results of the validation of one of the five hypotheses examined: " Is there a positive correlation between the learning process within the organization and its performance?."