Abstract
With the aim of providing a reliable method to evaluate and promote organizational culture, this paper adopts Denison Organisational Culture Survey (1990) and applies Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), descriptive statistics to examine the case of Thanh Tan Joint Stock Company. The paper presents a statistical validation of the sixty-item, twelve-index organizational culture survey developed to measure the key constructs in the model, using responses from 200 individuals at Thanh Tan Joint Stock Company. The model is based on four cultural traits of organizations: Involvement, consistency, adaptability, and mission. Each of these four traits is measured by three five-item indexes. In order to identify introverted or extroverted, flexible or stable organizational culture, firms should compare pairs of features along the horizontal and vertical lines of the Denison model. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potential application of the model and method as an approach for diagnosing organizational cultures.
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