Corporate culture and participation: Independent constructs?
Author(s) -
Aletta Odendaal,
Gert Roodt
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
sa journal of industrial psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.438
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2071-0763
pISSN - 0258-5200
DOI - 10.4102/sajip.v24i3.657
Subject(s) - organizational culture , theology , business administration , management , sociology , psychology , political science , public relations , philosophy , business , economics
The objective of this study was to determine whether participative management and corporate culture are mutually exclusive (independent) concepts. The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) used an organisational climate and culture questionnaire and applied it to the test sample of 2 357 personnel from a population of 23 564 people working for a paramilitary organisation. The data set of the HSRC was used for the purpose of this study. A panel of experts identified the items in the questionnaire which related to participation according to predetermined criteria and the remaining items were applicable to corporate culture. The results of the factor and item analyses indicate that participative management and corporate culture, as perceived by workers and management, were interrelated and were not independent concepts as conceptualised by the experts.
Opsomming Die doel van hierdie studie is om te bepaal of deelnemende bestuur en korporatiewe kultuur onderling uitsluitende (onafhanklike) konsepte is. Die Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing (RGN) het 'n kultuur- en klimaatvraelys op 'n steekproef van 2 357 respondente, vanuit 'n populasie van 23 564 persone wat werksaam is in 'n para-militere instansie, toegepas. Die datastel van die RGN is vir die doel van hierdie studie gebruik. 'n Paneel deskundiges het dimensies wat op deelname betrekking het geidentifiseer aan die hand van voorafbepaalde kriteria en die oorblywende items was op kultuur van toepassing. Die resultate van die faktor- en itemontledings het bevind dat deelnemende bestuur en korporatiewe kultuur, soos bestudeer vanuit die persepsies van werknemers en bestuur, oorwegend 'n gemeenskaplike eienskap meet en nie onafhanklike konstrukte is soos wel gekonseptualiseer deur deskundiges nie
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