Interventions to develop an improvement culture within nonprofit organization: The case of Saudi Arabia

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dc.contributor.authorAlmaiman, Sulaiman
dc.contributor.authorMcLaughlin, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorAl-Ashaab, Ahmed
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-11T14:51:01Z
dc.date.available2018-07-11T14:51:01Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-06
dc.description.abstractIt has been confirmed that organizational culture has a remarkable impact on facilitating continuous improvement. Nonetheless, little empirical research has investigated how organizational culture can facilitate continuous improvement. Therefore, this paper asks what interventions facilitate a continuous improvement culture within nonprofit organizations. Qualitative data are suggested as an appropriate method for answering the research question. The present research adopted an interpretive paradigm whereby reality, treated as a subjective and multiple entity that is “socially constructed”, can be mentally explored from the participants' perspectives. Grounded theory was the chosen approach for collecting and analysing the qualitative data; thus, the constructed theories were ‘grounded’ in the data themselves. Thirty one interviews in fifteen nonprofit organizations yielded data which, when analysed revealed a number of interventions, developed by the participants during five focus group discussions.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAlmaiman S, McLaughlin P, Al-Ashaab A, Interventions to develop an improvement culture within nonprofit organisations: the case of Saudi Arabia, Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering: Volume 6: Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXI. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, Incorporating the 32nd National Conference on Manufacturing Research, September 5–7, 2017, University of Greenwich, UKen_UK
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-61499-791-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-792-4-283
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13338
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.titleInterventions to develop an improvement culture within nonprofit organization: The case of Saudi Arabiaen_UK
dc.typeConference paperen_UK

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