The Construct of Nonprofit Learning Organizations and Its Impact on Performance

This paper intends to develop the measurement scale of nonprofit learning organization in the Chinese context based on the Dimensions of the Learning Organization Questionnaire(DLOQ).Specific items are modified by interviews and pilot test.Statistics packages are used to conduct exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis on the 367 questionnaires finished by employees from 25 nonprofit organizations(NPOs) in Zhejiang Province.The final nonprofit learning organization scale includes 4 dimensions,18 measurement indicators with good reliability and validity.Meanwhile,empirical results obtained from stepwise regression show that some dimensions of nonprofit learning organization are more important for different types of organizational performance.Results shed some light on the building of learning organization in China's NPOs and future researches.