The Relation Between Learning Climate and Mistake-Acceptance Components of Learning Culture: The Double Bias of Mistakes View

Abstract

The synergy of the KLC approach components (knowledge, learning, and collaboration cultures)  supports a knowledge-driven organization's sustainability. However, given the profound alleged "synergy" between the KLC cultures, the question arises: How does this synergy occur? Based on the former studies, it is assumed that a collaborative culture appears to be the unifying and synergy-driving force of all cultures incorporated into the KLC approach. However, learning culture is at the center of the KLC's power to support collective intelligence development in knowledge-driven organizations. This study aims to investigate in-depth how learning culture components, learning climate, and the mistakes acceptance component as a source of learning interact, based on Kucharska's and Karwowska's (2025) 'KLC-sustainability' model. To do so, a moderation analysis is performed based on a sample of 496 Polish knowledge workers using the ordinary least squares (OLS) regression method. Results showed that a strong learning culture has a high potential to neutralize the adverse effects of the double bias of mistakes.