The role of organizational culture on effectiveness

Abstract

In this study, the main subject is to contribute to the businesses as well as academic resear-
\nchers about the effect of organizational culture in reaching the organizational effectiveness. 
\nSustaining the organizational effectiveness is an important factor for organizational development 
\nand, the managerial level employees may utilize from the results of this study when constructing 
\ntheir strategy maps. To perform the study, we made a research analysis and applied a survey in-
\nstrument on a number of 578 employees in metalworking industry. We constructed an original 
\nmodel to fulfill the gap between the organizational culture and organizational effectiveness. We 
\nmeasured the organizational culture in dimensions of ‘involvement’, ‘collaboration’, ‘transmission 
\nof information’, ‘learning’, ‘care about clients’, ‘strategic direction’, ‘reward and incentive system’, 
\n‘system of control’, ‘communication’ and ‘coordination and integration’. Additionally, we measured 
\nthe organizational effectiveness in terms of ‘customer orientation’, ‘employee satisfaction’, ‘organi-
\nzational commitment’ and ‘financial & growth performance’. The methodology was carried out as 
\nresearching for the survey questions on the literature, constructing the best fitting survey from the 
\nalternatives, reaching the participants and informing them for the survey, gathering the data, and 
\nmeasuring & analyzing these data. The gathered data were entered in SPSS (Statistical Package 
\nfor the Social Sciences) version 11.5. By the results of the SPSS analyses, we determined that 
\nthe constructed model is significant (at the 0.000 level) and all organizational culture dimensions 
\nhave significant correlations with organizational effectiveness (at the 0.000 level). Furthermore, 
\nthe total explained variance of organizational effectiveness depending on -organizational culture 
\ndimensions- has come out as the value of 0.60. Therefore, we may conclude that; the academic 
\nresearchers as well as managerial level employees should investigate other factors to reach a high 
\nlevel of effectiveness.