Universal task and two faces of relationship orientation: a novel scale to measure organizational culture in Vietnam

Abstract

ABSTRACT The present study proposed a novel scale for assessing the perception of organizational culture (pOC_TSU) for Vietnam employees. Following a step-wise mixed methods research with 52 interviews, experts’ evaluations, and a survey of 329 working adults in four organizations in different sectors, the final scale comprises task orientation (8 items), unity orientation (3 items), and status orientation (3 items). Among the existing organizational culture scales, the latter two are unique. The present study furthers our understanding of workplace relationships in the Confucian socialist country and how these influence the perception of organizational culture.