Abstract
Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to study the Openness, confrontation, Trust, Autonomy,Pro-action, Authenticity, Collaboration & Experimenting (OCTAPACE) Culture among nurses from fivedifferent hospitalsMethodology: A sample of 314 nurses from 5 hospitals in Udupi and Manipal were administeringOCTAPACE profile instrument developed by Udai Pareek to study the cultural ethos at the selectedhealthcare organizations.Findings: The results indicate that there is a gap between desired and actual levels of OCTAPACE Culture.Organizations despite providing comparatively higher salaries and a host of welfare measures seem to bepossessing an average level of HRD Climate. Factors like lack of top management initiative in identifyingand developing nurse’s potential, nurses not taking the given feedback seriously and similar reasonscontribute to this situation and hence offers a lot of scope for improvement.
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