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Finding links between organisation’s culture and innovation. The impact of organisational culture on university innovativeness
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 10, p e0257962 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- The objective of the paper is to diagnose organisational culture of selected universities and analyse its impact on the innovation processes within them. The subject matter of the study was organisational culture and innovation at universities. The subjects were four selected universities in Poland, Austria, Germany, and Ukraine. The paper provided a definition of organisational culture and its typology. It further discussed the organisational culture of universities and the relationships between organisational culture and innovativeness. The literature review provided foundations for building a model for the formation of a type of organisational culture at universities that is innovation-friendly, which is the added value of the paper. It offers actions worth taking to shape innovation-friendly culture at universities. It is particularly important during difficult time of changing labour market, when universities greatly impact the attitudes of young people. The knowledge of how to shape innovation-friendly organisational culture at universities is necessary for academia to profile future employees in times of continuous changes. To investigate the relationship between organisational culture and the innovativeness of universities, we designed an original survey questionnaire [S1 File]. Organisational culture was diagnosed with the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument by K.S. Cameron and R.E. Quinn. The analyses were conducted in Dell Statistica v. 13.1 (StatSoft Polska). We normalised data from the Likert rating scale using Kaufman’s and Rousseeuw’s formula. We used Spearman’s correlation coefficient and Kendall’s W to calculate correlations. The research shows that the investigated Polish and Austrian universities are dominated by hierarchy and market cultures. On the other hand, the German and Ukrainian universities host all cultures, but clan and adhocracy dominate there. Moreover, the analyses demonstrated that although the adhocracy culture was the least visible in the investigated organisations, it contributes to university innovativeness the most. The conclusions were used to build a model for promoting innovation-friendly organisational culture at universities. The model contains answers to the research questions. In addition, it offers guidelines for shaping organisational culture to bolster innovation at universities. The research identified relationships between organisational culture and university innovativeness and components that create innovation opportunities at universities as its contribution to management theory. When applied in practice, the guidelines can help form the university’s organisational culture bottom-up.
- Subjects :
- Male
European People
Economics
Culture
German People
Social Sciences
Polish People
Creativity
German
Sociology
Germany
Surveys and Questionnaires
Psychology
Ethnicities
media_common
Marketing
Hierarchy
Schools
Multidisciplinary
Public relations
Ukrainian People
Organizational Innovation
Austria
language
Medicine
Female
Ukraine
Research Article
Adult
Typology
Universities
Adolescent
Science
media_common.quotation_subject
Organizational culture
Education
Likert scale
Young Adult
Added value
Humans
Organizations
business.industry
Adhocracy
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Industrial Organization
Organizational Culture
Communications
language.human_language
People and Places
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
Poland
business
Neuroscience
Slavic People
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....53de2efb8974e23c495376da7f51d034