Preliminary organizational culture scale focused on artifacts.

Further Examination of the Organizational Culture Scale Focused on Artifacts

The Role of Organizational Culture in Adopting Total Quality Management (Case Study: The Salt Complex, El Outaya, Biskra State)

This study aimed at exploring how the organizational culture can contribute in adopting Total Quality Management (TQM) in the organization. A case study was conducted at the Salt complex in El Outaya, Biskra State and the questionnaire was used to collect data. The study found that the organizational culture (organizational values, organizational behavior and the artifacts) contributes in adopt...

Testing safety commitment in organizations through interpretations of safety artifacts.

PROBLEM Safety culture relates to injuries and safety incidents in organizations, but is difficult to asses and measure. We describe a preliminary test of assessing an organization's safety culture by examining employee interpretations of organizational safety artifacts (safety signs). METHOD We collected data in three organizations using a new safety culture assessment tool that we label the...

Further examination of the Organizational Culture Scale of Artifacts.

The construct validity of a 10-item scale oriented to measure traditional culture, the Organizational Culture Scale of Artifacts, was analyzed under the hypothesis of unidimensionality. Confirmatory factor analysis took into account the method effects associated with reverse-worded items. Based on the data from one-half of a sample of 926 participants (79.8% male; M age = 33.4 yr., SD = 12.8), ...

Towards an organizational culture framework in construction

Organizational culture gives identity to an organization. Notwithstanding the individuality of the staff members, their actions are collectively bound by the organizational culture. A review of the literature in this topic reveals that despite a number of organizational culture models have been developed, these are mainly for generic business settings and there has yet one developed for constru...