SIMPLE & NEAT PRESENTATION

Exploring the intersection of organisational culture and management practices

IFJ6010 - Contemporary Issues in Business and ManagementMattia Bottega - 3/04/2022

table of contents

Definition of organisational culture

Cameron and Quinn’s Competing Values Framework

Bureaucratic culture

Conclusions

and lack of innovation

Company resistance to change

Reference list

and obsoletion of the product

Lack of visionary leadership

and absence of comapany's vision and strategy

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Definition of organisational culture

• Common values, rules, and goals
• Positive impact between culture and company’s performance (Munir and Arifin, 2021)
• Bahussin and Elgaraihy (2013) demonstrated a positive impact on knowledge management innovation

Cameron and Quinn’s Competing Values Framework

Fig.1: description of Cameron and Quinn’s CVF (O’Neill, De Vries and Comiskey, 2021)

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Bureaucratic culture

• Culture dominated by rules, regulations, and orders (Ababaneh, 2010)
• Communication is conducted based on hierarchy aspects (Ababaneh, 2010)

BUT

IT MIGHT LEAD TO A LACK OF INNOVATION

Difficulties to be competitive in the market

Suffocation of creativity and innovation

Historical demonstrations that this type of culture leads to low innovative capacity (Thompson, 1965)

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Company resistance to change

• Top-down approach
• Opposition to change is linked to resistance to learning. (Alas and Sharifi, 2002);

Company’s product might become obsolete due to new technologies, fashion trends or also customers' preferences

Old items will lose their usefulness, not being profitable anymore

Fig.2: Phases of the product life cycle (Sraders , 2021)

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Lack of visionary leadership

• Leadership plays an important role in an organization's success or failure (Lok and Crawford, 2004)

Behavioural leadership theory: leaders’ efficacy is determined by the actions that they will take to reach the company's goal (Uslu, 2019).

the lack of leadership can further conduct to an absence of clear vision and strategy

Confusion and uncertainty

Missed opportunities

Lack of alignment

Inefficient use of resources

laissez-faire is the style with the main lack of leadership (Barnett, 2017)

Conclusions

• Close connection between organizational culture and management practices
• Bureaucratic culture could lead to a lack of innovation
• The product of a company resistant to change could become obsolete
• Lack of leadership could create an absence of clear vision and strategy for the company

Reference list:

• Al-Bahussin, S.A. and Elgaraihy, W.H. (2013). The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices, Organisational Culture, Organisational Innovation and Knowledge Management on Organisational Performance in Large Saudi Organisations: Structural Equation Modeling With Conceptual Framework. International Journal of Business and Management, 8(22)
• Alas, R. and Sharifi, S. (2002). Organizational learning and resistance to change in Estonian companies. Human Resource Development International, 5(3), pp.313–331. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/13678860210143550
• Barnett, D. (2017). Leadership and Job Satisfaction: Adjunct Faculty at a For-Profit University. International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 4(3), pp.53–63. doi:https://doi.org/10.17220/ijpes.2017.03.006
• Ismail Ababaneh, R. (2010). The role of organizational culture on practising quality improvement in Jordanian public hospitals. Leadership in Health Services, 23(3), pp.244–259.
• Lok, P. and Crawford, J. (2004). The effect of organisational culture and leadership style on job satisfaction and organisational commitment. Journal of Management Development, 23(4), pp.321–338. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/02621710410529785
• Munir, M. and Arifin, S. (2021). Organizational Culture and Impact on Improving Employee Performance. Journal of Social Science Studies, 1(2), pp.65–68
• O’Neill, D., De Vries, J. and Comiskey, C.M. (2021). Leadership and community healthcare reform: a study using the Competing Values Framework (CVF). Leadership in Health Services, 34(4), pp.485–498. doi:https://doi.org/10.1108/lhs-01-2021-0007.
• Padhi, P. (2017). Organisational culture and Employee Performance. International Journal of Research in IT and Management, 7(5), pp.77–81
• Sraders, A. (2021). What Is the Product Life Cycle? Stages and Examples. [online] TheStreet. Available at: https://www.thestreet.com/markets/commodities/product-life-cycle-14882534 [Accessed 1 Apr. 2023].
• Thompson, V.A. (1965). Bureaucracy and Innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, [online] 10(1), pp.1–20. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/2391646
• Uslu, O. (2019). General Overview to Leadership Theories from a Critical Perspective. Marketing and Management of Innovations, [online] 1(1), pp.161–172. doi:https://doi.org/10.21272/mmi.2019.1-13.

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IFJ6010 - Contemporary Issues in Business and ManagementMattia Bottega - 3/04/2022