Organizational Culture: A Study of its Impact on Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Effectiveness

This essay plan explores the impact of organizational culture on innovation, job satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness through a study of 8 academic journal articles. The articles cover topics such as the relationship between organizational culture, leadership behavior, and job satisfaction, the impact of organizational culture on innovation, and the promise and problems of organizational culture. The essay also includes practical examples and additional references to support the findings.

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Introduction
In the competitive business environment it is very important for all the
businesses to ensure that they instill a sense of uniqueness in their organization so
that they are successfully able to combat against competition. This unique aspect of
the organization does not need to be an external support or some favorable situation
but may be just the organizational culture itself. Hence, the topic which has been
chosen for the essay is Organizational culture. The given topic has been chosen in
order to ensure that the most important component is well analyzed and studied so
that in future, through this study, students and managers alike are able to instill a
positive work culture which fosters creativity, peace and innovation.
Hogan, S.J. and Coote, L.V., 2014. Organizational culture, innovation, and
performance: A test of Schein's model. Journal of Business Research, 67(8),
pp.1609-1621.
Culture is often known to have a positive influence on the performance of the
different individuals in an organization and a key to innovation. The given articles
attempts to make a study of the Schein Model of organizational culture which hints
that a positive culture fosters innovation. The article will be useful for the essay as it
will assist in underlining the importance of innovation in the organizational context
and will used data findings as a result to understand that norms, artifacts , culture
and the innovative behaviors in a firm support innovation. Hence, this article
recommends to make an effective use of a positive organizational culture.
Hartnell, C.A., Ou, A.Y. and Kinicki, A., 2011. Organizational culture and
organizational effectiveness: a meta-analytic investigation of the competing
values framework's theoretical suppositions. Journal of applied
psychology, 96(4), p.677.
The given article is a quantitative analysis which makes use of a hypotheses
in order to analyze the relationship between the different types of culture which
remain in an organization and the key components of effectiveness which are
attitude, performance and financial performance. This article can be stated to be a
useful study in the field of organization culture and hence, it can be implemented and
used in the essay. The empirical studies as adopted in the paper support the clans,

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adhocracy and market cultures are positively as well as differentially associated with
the criteria assessed.
Tsai, Y., 2011. Relationship between organizational culture, leadership
behavior and job satisfaction. BMC health services research, 11(1), p.98.
According to the author Organization culture can be rightfully defined as the
values and beliefs which exist in a firm for a long time such that all the staff is
required to behave in this manner. Hence, this article aims to understand the
relationship between organizational culture, leadership behavior and the job
satisfaction. Hence, this articles covers a major portion of all essential aspects which
come under the topic related to organizational culture. The article follows a method
of cross sectional study which primarily focuses on the nurses in Taiwan. The results
supported that leadership and job satisfaction go hand in hand.
Büschgens, T., Bausch, A. and Balkin, D.B., 2013. Organizational culture and
innovation: A meta‐analytic review. Journal of product innovation
management, 30(4), pp.763-781.
The given article supports the statement that organizational culture and
innovation is a commonly studied topic and that due to this there have been varied
aspects of the concept of culture for innovation. Hence, this article aims to provide a
managerial structure as to understand the relationship between them. This article
can be successfully incorporated in the essay as it explores various components in
relation to the organizational culture. Hence, this article takes the place of a meta-
analysis by taking a combination of 43 studies and a sample size of 6341
organizations to understand the congruency of different organizational cultures. It
was found that usually the managers in different organizations tend to follow an
innovation strategy to develop culture in the firm.
Azanza, G., Moriano, J.A. and Molero, F., 2013. Authentic leadership and
organizational culture as drivers of employees’ job satisfaction. Revista de
Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 29(2).
Job satisfaction is often said to be a result of the authentic leadership and
organizational culture. Hence, it is also believed that the kind of organizational
culture which is fostered in an organization may have a positive impact the

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leadership which is developed in an organization. This in turn uplifts the attitude of
the employees and hence, lifts the importance of the organizational culture for a firm.
This article can be made use of in order to understand the overall impact of
organization culture. Moreover primary data was used in the article in the form of a
sample and the findings reflected that authentic leadership primarily flourishes
between a flexible culture and the satisfaction of employees.
O’Reilly III, C.A., Caldwell, D.F., Chatman, J.A. and Doerr, B., 2014. The promise
and problems of organizational culture: CEO personality, culture, and firm
performance. Group & Organization Management, 39(6), pp.595-625.
Organizational culture can be understood to be a broad concept and for this
reason, it has several positives but certain negative aspects as well. The article
states that the different studies undertaken in the context of organizational culture
have often failed to gain adequate empirical evidence with respect to the fact that
that they impact organizational consequences. No previous study has researched
their connection and hence, the objective of the study is to understand the aspects
relationship using evidence from 32 high technology companies. This can be a
useful source of material for the future studies and for the essay as well.
Dauber, D., Fink, G. and Yolles, M., 2012. A configuration model of
organizational culture. Sage Open, 2(1), p.2158244012441482.
The chosen article chooses to propose a configuration model with respect to
organizational culture which shall help in the assessment of the structures, strategy,
culture, structures of an organization at large. Moreover, the model also maps it with
the external environmental components. Hence, an inclusion of the chosen article in
the domain of organizational culture will be useful as will help in understanding of the
external as well as the internal influences on the organization and how to foster a
positive culture.
Schneider, B., Ehrhart, M.G. and Macey, W.H., 2013. Organizational climate and
culture. Annual review of psychology, 64, pp.361-388.
The chosen article reviews organizational climate as well as culture theory
and discusses relevant definitions with respect to all organizational culture concepts.
Moreover, this article can serve as a useful source of information to insert in the

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general parts of the essay as it lays down various concepts and identifies other
thinking’s as well. Moreover, the final part of the article which suggests an integration
of the climate and cultural thinking can also be briefly assessed along with the types
of culture, and other related theories.
Conclusion
Therefore, by making use of the above stated journal articles, the essay on
organizational culture will be used. Moreover, certain additional references with
respect to the practical examples will also be used in order to ensure that there can
be a presence of relevant evidences. In addition to this, the primary zest of the essay
will be derived from these eight academic journal articles.

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Bibliography List
Azanza, G., Moriano, J.A. and Molero, F., 2013. Authentic leadership and
organizational culture as drivers of employees’ job satisfaction. Revista de
Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 29(2).
Büschgens, T., Bausch, A. and Balkin, D.B., 2013. Organizational culture and
innovation: A meta‐analytic review. Journal of product innovation
management, 30(4), pp.763-781.
Dauber, D., Fink, G. and Yolles, M., 2012. A configuration model of organizational
culture. Sage Open, 2(1), p.2158244012441482.
Hartnell, C.A., Ou, A.Y. and Kinicki, A., 2011. Organizational culture and
organizational effectiveness: a meta-analytic investigation of the competing values
framework's theoretical suppositions. Journal of applied psychology, 96(4), p.677.
Hogan, S.J. and Coote, L.V., 2014. Organizational culture, innovation, and
performance: A test of Schein's model. Journal of Business Research, 67(8),
pp.1609-1621.
O’Reilly III, C.A., Caldwell, D.F., Chatman, J.A. and Doerr, B., 2014. The promise
and problems of organizational culture: CEO personality, culture, and firm
performance. Group & Organization Management, 39(6), pp.595-625.
Schneider, B., Ehrhart, M.G. and Macey, W.H., 2013. Organizational climate and
culture. Annual review of psychology, 64, pp.361-388.
Tsai, Y., 2011. Relationship between organizational culture, leadership behavior and
job satisfaction. BMC health services research, 11(1), p.98.

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