The Relationship between Organizational Culture and Performance in Industrial Companies in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The purpose of this researchis to examine the relationship between the four cultural dimensions of the competing values framework CVF (Group, developmental, hierarchical, and rational culture) and the three types of performance (Competitiveness of the organization, product quality, process clarity). Data were gathered by questionnaire and collected from 112 respondents who work in an industrial company in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, data were being analysed by using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS. The questionnaire was divided into three parts which are demographic questions, organizational culture questions, and organizational performance questions. It is found through Pearson correlation that there are significant relationships between the organizational culture and organizational performance factors that is competitiveness of organization, product quality, and clarity of processes. Between all of the dependent variables, competitiveness of organization found to be the highest correlated variable with organizational culture. Researcher recommended for organizations to focus on improving their culture in order to improve performance. Moreover, researcher recommended for the future studies to expand into other aspects that this study did not cover and include other variables to measure organizational culture and performance.