Abstract

Many companies attempt to transform themselves into creative organizations to create high performance. Organizational culture and dynamic capabilities are essential to make a creative organization. As the participation of women in society is more prevalent than ever, enterprises should have more concern on creating an environment that maximizes the capability of women as a way of improving the business performance. The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effect of dynamic capabilities that affects creativity for the organizational culture to influence organizational effectiveness in a rapidly changing environment, the fourth Industrial Revolution. Furthermore, this research investigates differences in organizational culture and dynamic capabilities according to gender characteristics. The result of this research is as followings. Rational culture affected to organizational effectiveness, however, Hierarchical culture affected only to creativity as a sub-factor of organizational effectiveness. Absorptive transformation capabilities as a sub-factor of dynamic capabilities mediated organizational culture and organizational effectiveness. And absorptive transformation capabilities positively affected to the organizational effectiveness in hierarchical culture as well. Rational culture positively affected to both dynamic capabilities and organizational effectiveness regardless of gender. In the rational culture, women are more involved to their job than men, and their performance is more than twice as high. Hierarchical culture influenced men''s dynamic capabilities, but did not affect women''s dynamic capabilities. Thus, this study represents that enterprises should build rational culture to business performance by utilizing the competence of female workers and have more concern on making environment for employees to exercise their dynamic capabilities.

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