Abstract:

In today’s competitive environment, intellectual capital is the main source of businesses’ survival and growth. Therefore, it is of vital importance for companies to recruit and retain knowledge-workers who are capable of contributing to their intellectual capital. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between organisational learning climate and organizational commitment of knowledge-workers. The data were collected from engineers and technicians working at automotive, automotive spare parts, electricity, machinery and electronical devices sectors. The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between organisational learning climate and affective and normative dimensions of organisational commitment. No significant relationship between learning climate and continuance commitment relationship was found. For companies employing knowledge-workers these results have very important implications regarding their management and human resources practices.

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