Learning Organization and Social Responsibility in Romanian Higher Education Institutions

This study investigated the relationship between learning organization and university social responsibility. This relationship was studied in three groups of internal stakeholders: students, staff with leadership, monitoring, evaluation and control roles, and staff involved in the development of the study programs. 536 members of two public Romanian universities filled in the 21-item Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire (Watkins & Marsick, 1997) and a scale of university social responsibility developed by the authors of this study. Different dimensions of learning organization presented various degrees of association with university social responsibility. These relationships varied according to formal organizational membership.