scholarly journals Examining the functioning of organizations from the aspects of organizational culture and leadership

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-381
Author(s):  
Ridhi Awasthi ◽  
Syed Mansub Ali
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
To Come

Organizational culture and Leadership both have been under research for a long time, as they play a vital role in the performance of an organization. The organizational culture is the set of rules or acts as a guidebook of an organization for achieving the objectives while leadership defines these rules and implements them as well. Organizational culture is dependent to a great extent on the norms and values of the society or the country where it is located. Important for achieving the objectives of an organization, this factor plays a vital role while setting the organizational culture. Incorporating organizational culture and then sustaining it is done by the leaders. Leadership if does not play an effective role in regards to implementation of the organizational culture, can collapse the organizational structure. Leaders are required to develop the qualities according to the organizational culture and should be responsible to come forward to transform if necessary and implement the system. The organizational culture should fulfill the needs of the organization’s goals and the norms of the society. Both leadership and organizational culture are co-dependent on each other and should be understood together.

scholarly journals Ranking the Knowledge Management Enablers Based on University Academic Members, Staff and Students Using AHP Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 7-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholamreza Jandaghi ◽  
Hamid Reza Irani ◽  
Ehssan Jandaghi ◽  
Zeinab Sadat Mousavi ◽  
Maryam Davoodavabi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Ahp Method ◽  
Weighting Method ◽  
Highest Weight ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Important Position

Knowledge management can play a vital role in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations. The earnings from utilizing knowledge management has caused that most organizations try to execute this process. In this study, we aim to assess the ranking and weights of knowledge management enablers based on the academic members, staff and student in management schools of Qom province in Iran. The results showed that the organizational culture has the most important position while the organizational structure has the least important position in knowledge management in universities. Using a group AHP weighting method resulted in highest weight for organizational culture and lowest weight for organizational culture in developing knowledge management in educational organizations.

scholarly journals PENGARUH BUDAYA ORGANISASI TERHADAP KNOWLEDGE SHARING

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Mariza Cindo Putri ◽  
Sri Raharso
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Long Time

Business organizations must have good characteristics and a differentiator from other organizations. Business organizations that have a strong organizational culture will be able to last a long time and can deal with change. An organizational culture consists of norms and values that guide the behavior of members of the organization. The behavior of members of the organization that occurred in the workplace one of them is knowledge sharing activities. In a learning organization, to gain new knowledge sharing activity is needed. With a strong organizational culture, knowledge sharing activities can be run successfully. This study aims to investigate the influence of organizational culture on knowledge sharing in PT Sandy Globalindo. The method used in this research is descriptive and associative, while the data collection techniques are to do interviews and distributing questionnaires to 135 employees by the census. The results of the descriptive analysis stating the organization's culture and knowledge sharing in PT Sandy Globalindo classified in either class. Based on the research that has been done, regression equation of Y = 9.790 + 0,608X. The study states that there is a positive relationship between organizational culture and knowledge sharing in PT Sandy Globlindo at 0.608 and organizational culture affects knowledge sharing of 36.9%.

scholarly journals Organizational Culture and Subcultures in the Spanish Nuclear Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3454
Author(s):  
Eulàlia Badia ◽  
Joaquín Navajas ◽  
Josep-Maria Losilla
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Nuclear Organization ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
High Reliability Organizations ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Organizational Subcultures ◽  
Organizational Culture Inventory

Organizational culture determines the norms, values and behaviors of an organization, playing a key role in the safety of high-reliability organizations (HRO). Previous research has shown that differentiated subcultures can coexist within organizations, sharing some norms and values but not necessary everything From this perspective, this study was aimed at (1) describing the organizational culture of the Spanish nuclear industry and (2) determining the potential presence of organizational subcultures. To do that, a statistical analysis of organizational culture surveys (Organizational Culture Inventory®, N = 5825) handed over to all organizations within the Spanish nuclear industry, was carried out. Results allow us to accurately characterize the industry’s organizational culture, which is made up of predominant “Constructive”-style behaviors together with “Defensive” normative patterns of the “Conventional”, “Dependent” and “Perfectionistic” styles. Indications about the existence of various subcultures associated to the nuclear organization type, the sociodemographic aspect and the organizational structure component were also found. Certain safety implications potentially linked to the existence of subcultures and to the industry’s organizational culture are discussed.

scholarly journals Non-Governmental Organizations Participation in Criminal Processes

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Akbar Varvai ◽  
Hemat Mohamadi ◽  
Ayyoub Nourian
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come

<p>Despite their long-time physical presence in our country (Iran), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have not been taken seriously by the government and public institutions, and play no effective role in criminal proceedings. An innovative by 2013 criminal procedure code is to realize doctrine of participatory criminal policy through NGOs participation in criminal proceedings, which has been provided for by legislator in Article 66 of mentioned code which was amended suddenly within a few days prior to being approved to come into effect on the basis of an interesting decision and which degraded NGOs’ right to litigate into the limit of that of indictors and viewers at proceedings.</p>During proceedings, NGOs play the role of indictors and viewers, regardless of the lack of legal, cultural and social grounds necessary for them to take an active part in criminal proceedings in our country; and, in effect, they face such limitations and ambiguities as criteria of the recognition of their qualifications to do so (Article 66, provision 3). In addition, it is not clear how to develop NGOs’ participation in criminal proceedings and how to monitor their activities. Present study is intended to examine grounds of and barriers to NGO’s activity in criminal proceedings and to address vital roles they can play in the crime prevention and their involvement with criminal proceedings.

Struktur Organisasi, Desain Kerja, Budaya Organisasi Dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Produktivitas Karyawan Studi Kasus Pada PT. XX Di Jakarta

Liquidity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanti Budiasih
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Dominant Influence

The objectives of this study are to analyze changes in organizational structure, job design, organizational culture and its influence on employee productivity at PT. XX in Jakarta and to identify variables that have a dominant influence on the productivity of employees. The research method used is using multiple linear regression analysis. The results show that the all variables simultaneously and partially change the organizational structure, job design, and organizational culture has a significant impact on employee productivity at PT. XXin Jakarta.

Intra-industry and inter-industry trade through the lens of comparative and absolute advantage

2016 ◽  
pp. 112-128
Author(s):  
A. Gnidchenko
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Increasing Returns ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Export Diversification ◽  
Industry Trade ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Absolute Advantage

The article surveys the literature that emphasizes the importance of comparative and absolute advantages for intra- and inter-industry trade. Two conclusions follow form the survey. First, unlike the traditional view, intra-industry trade is determined rather by technology than by increasing returns. Second, absolute advantages that have been ignored in international trade models for a long time play a vital role through their linkages with product quality and export diversification. We also discuss a new strand of literature that models international trade with the assumption of non-homothetic preferences.

Western Education and Rural Productivity in Tropical Africa

Africa ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. C. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Rural Life ◽  
Tropical Africa ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
White Collar Workers ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Complete Rejection ◽  
To Come ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphFor many years British administrators and others concerned with the developing countries of tropical Africa have criticized Western-type schooling introduced there for what they believe to have been its bad effects on the life of rural peoples. They have complained that such schooling is prejudicial to rural life, since it produces a distaste for agriculture and leads to a drift from the land. They say it promotes in schoolchildren a desire to be clerks or white-collar workers and, because of their schooling, they develop a strong dislike for manual work and a reluctance to soil their hands with physical labour. They assert that these values inculcated by Western schooling lead finally to an almost complete rejection of rural life, a contempt for agriculture, and therefore to a decrease in rural productivity. Finally, they maintain that this is particularly serious in view of the fact that, as far as we can see at present, many African countries will have to depend on agriculture and the land for a long time to come, for it is only through such dependence that it seems likely that they will achieve economic viability which will be an important factor in making a success of political independence.

Using Old Photographs in Interviews: Some Cautionary Notes About Silences in Fieldwork

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 327-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Bravman
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
The People ◽  
Taita Hills ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Photo Collection ◽  
Image Production ◽  
To Come

In September 1987, early in my research at the Kenya National Archives, I came across a collection of photographs taken by a British missionary during the 1920s and early 1930s. The collection contained nearly 250 photos of the terrain and people of Kenya's Taita Hills, where I would soon be going for my fieldwork. I pored over the photo collection for a long time, and had reproductions made of twenty-five shots. The names of those pictured had been recorded in the photo album's captions. Many of the names were new to me, though a few WaTaita of the day who had figured prominently in the archival records were also captured on film. When I moved on to Taita in early 1988,1 took the photographs with me. Since I would be interviewing men and women old enough either to remember or be contemporaries of the people in the pictures, I planned to show the photos during the interviews. At first I was simply curious about who some of the people pictured were, but my curiosity quickly evolved into a more ambitious plan. I decided to try using the photographs as visual prompts to get people to speak more expansively than they otherwise might about their lives and their experiences.In the event, I learned that using the photographs in interviews involved many more complexities than I had envisaged in my initial enthusiasm. I found that I had to alter the expectations and techniques I took to Taita, and feel out some of the limitations of working with the photographic medium. I had to recognize the power relations embedded in my presence as a researcher in Taita, in my position as bearer of images from peoples' pasts, and in the photos themselves. I found, too, that I needed to come to grips with a number of issues about the politics of image production, and the historical product of those politics: the bounded, selected images that are photographs. Finally, I had to address some of my own cultural assumptions about photography and how people respond to pictures, assumptions that my informants did not necessarily share.

scholarly journals Physical Properties of Thermoplastic Starch Derived from Natural Resources and Its Blends: A Review

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1396
Author(s):  
Z. N. Diyana ◽  
R. Jumaidin ◽  
Mohd Zulkefli Selamat ◽  
Ihwan Ghazali ◽  
Norliza Julmohammad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermoplastic Starch ◽  
Natural Fibre ◽  
Polymer Materials ◽  
Secondary Pollution ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Long Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
Main Component ◽  
Significant Attention

Thermoplastic starch composites have attracted significant attention due to the rise of environmental pollutions induced by the use of synthetic petroleum-based polymer materials. The degradation of traditional plastics requires an unusually long time, which may lead to high cost and secondary pollution. To solve these difficulties, more petroleum-based plastics should be substituted with sustainable bio-based plastics. Renewable and natural materials that are abundant in nature are potential candidates for a wide range of polymers, which can be used to replace their synthetic counterparts. This paper focuses on some aspects of biopolymers and their classes, providing a description of starch as a main component of biopolymers, composites, and potential applications of thermoplastics starch-based in packaging application. Currently, biopolymer composites blended with other components have exhibited several enhanced qualities. The same behavior is also observed when natural fibre is incorporated with biopolymers. However, it should be noted that the degree of compatibility between starch and other biopolymers extensively varies depending on the specific biopolymer. Although their efficacy is yet to reach the level of their fossil fuel counterparts, biopolymers have made a distinguishing mark, which will continue to inspire the creation of novel substances for many years to come.

Knowledge Sharing in Catholic Organizations

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Carla Curado ◽  
João Graça ◽  
Mírian Oliveira ◽  
Alexandra Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Culture Theory ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Organizational Culture Theory ◽  
Catholic Organizations

This study examines knowledge sharing in Catholic organizations. The authors adopt Schein's organizational culture theory that facilitates, or inhibits, knowledge sharing in organizations. Thus, they address the phenomenon at the three levels: the artifacts, the norms and values, and the underlying assumptions. Considering the chosen settings, they study the contributions of individuals having taken vows, the organizational rituals, the significance, and the sense of community perceived by the organizational members. Data were gathered using a survey and were analyzed by using a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. The study provides the causal configurations of conditions that lead to tacit, explicit, and total knowledge sharing. They also offer the causal configurations of conditions that lead to the absence of each kind of knowledge sharing. Given that the qualitative results cannot be generalized, the study can still be replicated in organizations without restrictions.

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