Organizational culture: how aware of it are employees? : case: Jamones Juan Gargallo (Spain) Ltd.
Casas Morente, Belen (2017)
Casas Morente, Belen
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201705117620
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201705117620
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The goal of this thesis is to describe the current organizational culture of Jamones Juan Gargallo Ltd and improve the staff’s understanding of it. Therefore, the researcher focused on reviewing the organizational culture definitions and dimensions. In addition, she conducted face-to-face interviews and applied the Hofstede Multi-Focus Model (Waisfisz,2015) in the case study company. The main method used in this thesis is qualitative and there were three respondents out twenty-two employees.
Additional questions arose during the research e.g. how the national culture influences in the organization and how high is the degree of organizational awareness. In order to answer these questions, the author analyzed the Spanish national culture looking for strengths and weaknesses that obstruct the ideal organizational culture.
The findings show first a clear influence of the Spanish national culture in the company, second, different degrees of organizational culture awareness in the personnel, and third, misunderstandings regarding what is the importance of the organizational culture in the tasks performance and the hierarchical structure.
The author expects that this study can help Jamones Juan Gargallo Ltd to find out how to improve the corporate culture and help the employees to be more aware of their culture. However, the results can be only applied to this particular case and cannot be generalized.
Additional questions arose during the research e.g. how the national culture influences in the organization and how high is the degree of organizational awareness. In order to answer these questions, the author analyzed the Spanish national culture looking for strengths and weaknesses that obstruct the ideal organizational culture.
The findings show first a clear influence of the Spanish national culture in the company, second, different degrees of organizational culture awareness in the personnel, and third, misunderstandings regarding what is the importance of the organizational culture in the tasks performance and the hierarchical structure.
The author expects that this study can help Jamones Juan Gargallo Ltd to find out how to improve the corporate culture and help the employees to be more aware of their culture. However, the results can be only applied to this particular case and cannot be generalized.