Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between organizational culture and productivity in one of Iranian Gas distribution companies. The proposed study designs a questionnaire and distributes it among 78 out of 120 managers who worked for this organization. The study uses correlation ratio to examine the relationship between different components of the survey. The results of our survey indicate that there were positive and meaningful relationship between organizational culture and productivity where Spearman and Pearson correlations between these two components were 0.637 and 0.635 with P<0.01. In addition, the study has found some positive and meaningful relationship between different components of organizational culture and productivity; namely creativity, accepting risk, support, integration, control, identification and reward policy and communication.
Highlights
During the past few years, there have been tremendous efforts to increase productivity of organizations
There are different studies to find out whether there is any relationship between productivity improvement and other organizational components such as organizational culture
Khalghani et al (2013) investigated organizational structure, culture, and information technology as knowledge management (KM) infrastructural capabilities, and compared their significance and status quo in five medical research centers in Tehran, Iran. They reported that in terms of their status quo, the three studied KM enablers were at various conditions, with organizational culture having the best and IT the worst status
Summary
During the past few years, there have been tremendous efforts to increase productivity of organizations. According to Zamahani et al (2013), for years, the idea of virtue was unfavorable among researchers and virtues were traditionally considered as culture-specific, relativistic and they were supposed to be related to social conservatism, religious or moral dogmatism, and scientific irrelevance They examined the relationships between leadership, organizational culture, human resource, structure and processes, care for community and virtuous organization. According to Kia et al (2013) knowledge plays an important role on creating value added business units in today’s competitive environment They performed a study to investigate the relationship between knowledge management and organization culture in an Iranian PVC industry. Established culture, strategic culture and flexible culture were the most important items influencing innovation culture
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