The efficiency of e-learning and importance of corporation culture in organizations: Implement an example

Technological developments have gained speed with globalization and the need of qualified human resources is increasing recently in organizations. For this reason, organization should give continuous education to their employees since they compete against other organizations. Employees might refuse new training methods. To prevent this, organizational culture have to be constructed according to the recent technological improvements. Organizations must stop perceiving e-learning as a cost or time loss. On the contrary, they must realize that it?s a very productive activitiy. If organizational culture and the top management encourages the employees about the new training methods, it will be so easy for employees to adopt to the new methods. The purpose of this study is to expose the effect of e-learning over organizational culture and to research the affects of e-learning for both organizations and employees. In this study, firstly various definitons of e-learning are given, basic concepts of e-learning are explained in detail and developing process of e-learning is described. Afterwards, the advantages and the dificulties of application of e-learning are explained. In the second part, desciptions of organizational culture are given and characteristics, functions, dimensions and elements of organizational culture are explained. In this section the relationship between e-learning and organizational culture and the information about e-learning practices in Turkey and the world are mentioned. In the last section, research findings, research results, analysises and comments concerning these results of the selected organization are explained. The research area is Turkish Garanti Bank?s Branch in Ankara. 73 employees in these banks are inquired. According to the research results, the need of qualified human resources in organizations is increasing recently. By supporting of top management and adaptation with organizational culture, e-learning will obtain success to organizations and this will help employees to adopt e-learning.