Investigating the role of organizational culture in facilitating continuous improvement within Saudi non-profit organizations

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dc.contributor.authorAlmaiman, Sulaiman
dc.contributor.authorMcLaughlin, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-20T13:39:23Z
dc.date.available2018-07-20T13:39:23Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-19
dc.description.abstractIt has been confirmed that organizational culture has a significant impact on facilitating continuous improvement, although it is not clear yet how this impact can be achieved. On the other hand, nonprofit organizations struggle mainly in sustaining resources and increasing the quality of the services they provide. Several recent studies have confirmed the crucial role of organizational culture in implementing operational management approaches. However, answering the question of “how” is still awaiting a clear road map. Nonetheless, nonprofit organizations contribute remarkably to economies and civilisation. They deserve research attention, and studies done on continuous improvement suggest it to be holistically beneficial. Hence, this paper shows an empirical investigation that selected Saudi nonprofit organizations for their social setting to explore the influence of organizational culture on facilitating continuous improvement. The approach of grounded theory has been employed, using qualitative data, to construct a reality based on participant perspectives. The thirty-one interviews that were conducted at thirteen organizations revealed many lower level cultural aspects. These aspects were evolved, during five focus groups, into six higher-level themes. The findings can be used by leaders to create desired change.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAlmaiman S, McLaughlin P, Investigating the role of organizational culture in facilitating continuous improvement within Saudi non-profit organizations, Journal of Human Resources Management Research, Vol. 2018, 2018, Article number 724461en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2166-0018
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.5171/2018.724461
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13356
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherIBIMA Publishingen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectOrganizational cultureen_UK
dc.subjectContinuous improvementen_UK
dc.subjectNonprofit originationsen_UK
dc.subjectSaudi Arabiaen_UK
dc.titleInvestigating the role of organizational culture in facilitating continuous improvement within Saudi non-profit organizationsen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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