Uncovering aspects that facilitate a continuous improvement culture within nonprofit organizations

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dc.contributor.authorAlmaiman, Sulaiman
dc.contributor.authorMcLaughlin, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-11T12:54:21Z
dc.date.available2018-07-11T12:54:21Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-06
dc.description.abstractThe literature shows that organizational culture has a significant impact on implementing and sustaining continuous improvement initiatives, although there is a lack of research on how to achieve this impact. Therefore, this action research adopts a grounded theory approach to explore aspects of organizational culture that facilitate continuous improvement. Eighteen interviews in nine nonprofit organizations yielded data which, when analysed revealed forty emergent factors, classifiable into six core themes developed by the participants during two focus group discussions. These themes conceptualized by Schain's model of organizational culture.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAlmaiman S, McLaughlin P, Uncovering aspects that facilitate a continuous improvement culture within nonprofit organizations, Proceedings of the 24th EurROMA Conference, 1-5 July 2017, Edinburgh, UKen_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://euroma2017.org/
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13337
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectOrganizational cultureen_UK
dc.subjectContinuous improvementen_UK
dc.subjectNonprofit organizationsen_UK
dc.titleUncovering aspects that facilitate a continuous improvement culture within nonprofit organizationsen_UK
dc.typeConference paperen_UK

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