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2020 - Volume 4 - Number 2

Examining the Effects of Organizational Learning on Workforce Agility through Psychological Empowerment

Derryna Nadhira Putri * derrynanadhira@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0001-7732-890X * ResearcherID: AAX-5339-2020
Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Psychology, Depok, INDONESIA

Wustari L. Mangundjaya * wustari@ui.ac.id * ORCID: 0000-0001-8883-3725 * ResearcherID: P-6500-2014
Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Psychology, Depok, INDONESIA

Open Journal for Psychological Research, 2020, 4(2), 85-94 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojpr.0402.02085n
Received: 22 June 2020 ▪ Accepted: 24 September 2020 ▪ Published Online: 6 November 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
This era currently has become a more competitive and volatile environment. Companies must be invariably innovative, adaptive, and open to any changes. Constant learning and being psychologically enabled at work will lead the employees to be agile. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between organizational learning and workforce agility with the moderation of psychological empowerment. This study used a quantitative approach by distributing an online survey to the employees that work in commerce companies with N= 138 people. The research data obtained were then analyzed using descriptive statistics, confirmation factor analysis (CFA), and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results showed that organizational learning has a positive and significant relationship with psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment has a positive and significant relationship with workforce agility, and psychological empowerment fully moderates the relationship between organizational learning and workforce agility. Based on the results of this study, psychological empowerment has an essential role in organizational learning to increase labor agility.

KEY WORDS: organizational learning, psychological empowerment, workforce agility.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Wustari L. Mangundjaya, Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Psychology, Depok, INDONESIA. E-mail: wustari@ui.ac.id.

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