Key successful factors of learning organization in Kaoshiung City Government

In such a globalization and knowledge economy era in the 21st century,the core administrative capacity and performance of public organizations depend on public management and the application of public human resources. the development of human resources concept has been changing from training to people performance. individual performance does not equal to organizational performance; however,individual performance could be transformed into organizational performance by connecting with process based performance. individual performance depends on the learning in workplaces and the appropriate job adjustment of employees. in this case,public servants should constantly adapt continuing education,while public management should move toward learning organizations so that the local public organizations can develop high competitiveness. total 600 copies of questionnaires were distributed to the heads of public agencies and the general public servants in kaohsiung city government. after deducting 274 invalid ones,total 326 valid copies were retrieved,with the retrieval rate 54.3%. the research findings show that 1. the priority and importance of the five evaluation factors are ranked as learning,people,organization,knowledge,and technology and 2. learning type presents the total optimal consistency,followed by learning skill,and employees are mostly emphasized. with the research outcomes,this paper expects to provide some conclusions and suggestions to public organizations which try to implement learning organization in the future. © 2011 pakistan journal of statistics.