Organizational Culture in the Ghanaian Construction Industry
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2016-06
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KNUST
Abstract
The personality of an individual is important as well as the culture of an organization.
Understanding the culture of an organization is a first step to selfdiscovery by
acknowledging its weakness and strength. Studies have suggested that, awareness of
culture is an opportunity towards improving the effectiveness of the organization. The
study aimed at exploring organizational culture and developing a culture typology for
construction organizations in Ghana. An extensive literature review was conducted
through desk survey. The study was grounded in the positivism perspective of
epistemology philosophy which assisted in employing quantitative approach and
questionnaire survey as the data collection instrument. The study achieved a response
rate of 83.96%. The data was subjected to descriptive analysis, reliability analysis,
mean score ranking, relative importance index and factor analysis. The findings of the
study revealed that the Ghanaian construction industry is dominated by the
hierarchical trait of culture developed from the Competing Value Framework (CVF).
Besides, significant factors for organizational culture were identified which became
precursor to the construction of the culture typology for construction organizations in
Ghana. The developed typology consisted of four main traits including workplace
culture, business culture, system and group culture. It was recommended that, future
research should focus on confirmatory factor analysis to affirm the traits and its
defining factors as well as its relationship to
partnership, innovation and productivity improvement. To construction organizations,
it is recommended that studies should be conducted into management rethinking and
observation of culture typologies to improve efficiency.
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Building Technology, College of Art and Built Environment, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy