There are two specific purposes of the present paper. First is to analyze the typology of organizational learning in schools. The second purpose is to identify key factors that facilitate or delay the progression of schools towards becoming "earning organizations". To address these two purposes, a survey instrument was constructed for both elementary and secondary schools in Taiwan. The quantitative analyses of data intend to identify major patterns among Taiwanese schools in different stages of organizational learning. Discriminant analyses were employed to identify key propelling factors that assisted schools' progression towards "learning organizations". This was followed by more in-depth interviews of principals selected from schools falling into four respective conditions described in the model. |