Strategy for Culture

Strategy for Culture

Designing and Explanation of a Model for Understanding, Measurement and Management of Organizational Culture; Case Study of a Revolutionary Institution of Islamic Revolution

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Borzu Farahi Bozanjani 1
Mohammad Ibrahim Sanjaqi 2
Mohammad Bazargani 3
Mohammad Reza Sultani 4
1 Associate Professor, Imam Hussain (AS) University
2 Associate Professor, Industrial Malek Ashtar University
3 Assiatant Professor, Imam Hussain (AS) University
4 Assistant Professor, Imam Hussain (AS) University
Abstract
In order to increase their awareness of their unique cultural values to achieve excellent performance, dynamic and leading organizations always try to use different scientific mechanisms to measure their situation and improve their organizational culture. Different models and patterns as well as typologies have been presented by thinkers and scholars of the field of management and organization for measuring and evaluating the organizational culture.
The present paper is an attempt to design an indigenous model for measurement and management of organizational culture of institutions of the Islamic Revolution. Drawing on religious teachings, deliberations of the revolution’s leaders and scientific theories and findings, attempts have been made in the first place to identify the dimensions, factors and indexes of indigenous organizational culture. In the next step, the model is tested in order to check its validity.. The indexes have been acknowledged by experts with a high validity rate (93.7 percent). Ultimately, five types of organizational cultures were identified: ideological, developmental, excellence-oriented, idealist and law-abiding. The findings of the research indicate that ideological culture with 3.52 scores stands first and developmental culture with 2.96 scores stands last from the viewpoint of respondents.
Keywords
Organizational Culture
Management of Organizational Culture
Types of Organizational Culture
Institutions of Islamic Revolution
Strategy for Culture
Volume 6, Issue 21
Spring 2013
Pages 113-138