Achievement motivation and organizational learning in a professor of a private university in metropolitan Lima

Abstract

The problem of achievement motivation and organizational learning is going to be determined by considering their levels of interaction and variations according to respective indicators (professional field, academic degree, age, place or places of employment, and gender) corresponding to professors of a private university in Lima. This explanatory and descriptive, non-experimental, transversal, and correlational research, analyzes levels of achievement and organizational learning in professors and the type of relationship between achievement motivation and organizational learning, as well as identifies the respective differences to these variables.
The results show that achievement motivation significantly interacts in organizational learning, morever that professors have significant differences both in the levels of achievement’s motivation and organizational learning as in their respective indicators.
Finally the results were analyzed and a doctrinal framework was built thanks to contributions of Tapia, Montero and Huertas (2000) and Garzon and Fisher (2010), among others.