Search results for "Organizational culture"

A firm’s organizational innovation and organizational learning abilities

2019

Many recent studies are dedicated to the problem of innovation as a mean of improving a firm’s overall performance. Various kinds of innovation in a firm usually are closely interrelated with each other. While the majority of studies focus on technological - product and process - innovation, the investigation of non-technological - marketing and organizational - innovation (ORI), has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers during the last decade. Organizational culture and organizational learning are important drivers of such innovation. For instance, a collaborative culture, trust and open-mindedness encourage new initiatives and ideas, while learning helps not just to improve s…

Organizational innovation for SME'S: a model for Latvia

2020

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can be a significant source of innovation in small economies. SMEs face challenges of limited capacity, personnel and resources for long-term investments. Additionally, they might not see and understand the benefits of innovation. Implementation of organizational innovation (OI) could give such enterprises an opportunity to improve competitiveness and develop other types of innovation. The purpose of this study is to develop a model, explaining OI through such factors as organizational culture (OC) and knowledge management (KM) in SMEs via an empirical study across various industries. Surveying 600 SMEs in Latvia, the authors explore the contributio…

Kaiken keskellä : keskijohto strategisen muutoksen tekijänä ja kokijana

2018

This research focuses on the actions and perceptions of the middle managers during a strategic change. Over the years, strategic change and middle managers have been studied from various points of view. The importance of middle managers and their roles and actions have been argued both for and against. Most of the recent research emphasises the middle managers’ importance in strategic organizational change as mediators between the change initiators and the change recipients. However, there is less research on middle managers’ and subordinates’ sensemaking processes during a strategic organizational change, especially when identity, culture, artefacts, emotions and change resistance are cons…

An empirical assessment of employer branding as a form of sport event sponsorship

2019

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to expand and test Backhaus and Tikoo’s (2004) employer branding (EB) conceptual framework from the perspective of internal EB in a sport event sponsorship context. Design/methodology/approach. This study developed a set of hypotheses, which were tested in the context of a business-to-business multinational organization’s sport event sponsorship project. Empirical data were collected from 716 employees of the case company after the sponsorship project was complete. Findings. The results support all the hypotheses and reveal that a sport event sponsorship project can act as a means to achieving EB goals in the investigated context. Research limitations/i…

Patterns of university teachers’ approaches to teaching, professional development and perceived departmental cultures

2019

Many studies have been conducted about academics’ approaches to teaching, professional development and perceived departmental culture, but their interconnectedness has been considered to a lesser extent. The research presented here examined these patterns comparatively by disciplinary fields and years of teaching experience. Three inventories were filled in by 1141 academics from one Finnish and two Hungarian universities. Based on a hierarchical cluster analysis, four patterns emerged: (1) Experimenters with diverse teaching approaches; (2) Experimenters perceiving their department’s culture as most supportive and collaborative; (3) Individualistic knowledge-focused teachers; and (4) Stude…

Análisis de la cultura organizacional de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Valencia

2017

Resumen Este artículo analiza la cultura organizativa de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Valencia (España). Se ha utilizado el Inventario de Cultura Organizacional de Cooke y Lafferty, validado por la literatura científica y muy empleado. Mide tres estilos culturales: constructivo, pasivo-defensivo y agresivo-defensivo. El instrumento se ha aplicado a una muestra de 363 alumnos/as del grado de Psicología, obteniéndose bajos niveles en el índice de desviación media, lo que permite establecer conclusiones a nivel agregado. En suma, la cultura percibida en este centro universitario no sobresale especialmente por ningún estilo en particular, aunque apunta muy ligeramente hacia un…

Supporting employee engagement with internal communication for high reliability

2015

Tämä pro gradu-työ tarkastelee kirjallisuuden ja empiirisen tutkimuksen avulla työntekijöiden sitoutumista organisaatioissa, joiden toiminnalle korkea luotettavuusvaatimus on edellytys. Työntekijöiden sitoutuminen ja sen merkitys organisaation menestykselle on noussut kiinnostuksenkohteeksi niin käytännössä kuin akateemisen tutkimuksen piirissä. Sisäinen viestintä on yksi väline jolla sitoutumista voi tukea organisaatiossa, ja sillä on myös merkitystä organisaation toimintavarmuudelle. Työ on laadullinen tutkimus, joka toteutettu pääosin abduktiivisella tutkimusmetodilla. Työssä on sekä teoreettinen että empiirinen osuus. Teoriaosuus käsittelee työntekijöiden sit…

The Dynamics of the Organizational Culture in a Municipality

2013

Review of “Performing Nordic Heritage : Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture,” edited by Peter Aronsson and Lizette Gradén

2015

From Tools to Social Construction of Organizational Reality: Studying Value Dissemination in three Case Companies

2006

Values and value management are extremely important nowadays in the companies. As thought, each organization works better when it is constantly kept in mind what is essential. Management`s role in value processing is crucial: they have to show the example to employees by acting due values. In this study the managerial roles in value dissemination and especially the personnel’s experiences about the processes are studied. Being big projects which require a lot of investments from the firm, evaluation of these value processing projects are of importance. The aim of this paper is to study value processing in three different organizations (forest industry, banking and market). The special focus…