THE LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS IN PUBLIC SECTOR IN ROMANIA

The Learning Organization is the organization that continuously learns and readapts. It is the place where employees constantly develop the capacity of generating the results they truly target, where new and bold thinking methods are encouraged, where collective aspirations are released and where people continuously discover how to learn together (Senge, 1990). This concept emerged in the corporations of the 1980s, but in the meantime it also became attractive for the public sector. This paper analyses the extent to which the concept of 'Learning Organization' exists in the public sector in Romania, the current learning capacity of the organizations in this sector and the impact of the concept at organizational level. As research instrument, the questionnaire designed by Bruce Britton (1998) 'The Learning NGO' was applied within six public organizations. The research questions addressed in this paper are: (1) What is the degree of use of the learning concept to support and facilitate the development of employees, organization itself institutions and local community?; (2) What is the impact of the learning concept on the public organizations?