University organizational culture mapping using Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument

Abstract

Culture is the core element of an organization. Organizational culture must reflect the shared values and beliefs that show people meaning and provide them the guidance to working behaviour. The organizational culture should be constructed by following the expected future values and considering the common value of people in the organization. Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) is one of the structural approaches to evaluate the implementation of organizational culture. Nowadays, many of the public university in Indonesia has been transforming into a more productive and agile organization. The university transformation also needs redefine or evaluate their organization’s values as a part of strategic plan. Applying OCAI framework is necessary to assess the excellence of the transformation process in university. OCAI has applied in our university, i.e.: Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), to define the organizational culture for the higher agility of the organization in the future. More than 400 university employees, including lecturers and administration staffs, have involved in organization culture’s survey. The results of OCAI assessment showed that ITS tend to perform as the clan and the hierarchy type of organizational culture. While the management capabilities of ITS leaders showed that, the leadership characteristic is related to the clan culture.