Organizational Culture: Value and Innovation

A sample of 502 workers completed a package of scales for measuring organizational culture along with the other concurrent measures, including organizational climate and demographical variables. Results of factor analysis revealed an eight-factor structure of organizational culture and six-factor structure of innovative climate.

A two-higher-order factor model was further proved for representing the factor structure behind the eight basic factors, entitled as a culture-general and culture-specific organizational culture. For the innovative climate of organization, a positive coefficient was found for the culture-general organizational culture, a negative relationship was reported for the culture-specific organizational culture. Thus, it seems that the culture-general organizational culture may reinforce innovative climate, the culture-specific organizational culture is not encouraging facet for the development of innovative climate.