The Impact of Organizational Culture on Organizational Effectiveness in Construction Projects

A majority of research show that organizational culture is context-specific and it can impact organizational effectiveness positively. But few empirical studies have probed into the relationship in the context of project-based organizations. A survey was conducted of construction projects in China with the aim of better understanding the relationship. Based on 512 samples, the findings indicate that there exist differences in the relationship between four culture types and organizational effectiveness. The results show that clan and hierarchy cultures have greater positive effect on organizational effectiveness than market and adhocracy cultures. Moreover, this research examines the possible moderating effects of project size in the relationship between organizational culture and organizational effectiveness. The findings validate that project size has not moderated the impact of organizational culture on organizational effectiveness. Future research is necessary to identify other moderators in the relationship between organizational culture and organizational effectiveness.

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Forecasting the schedule performance resulting from the adoption of social distancing in construction projects

Engineering Construction & Architectural Management ◽

10.1108/ecam-07-2021-0632 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Hilary Omatule Onubi ◽

Nor'Aini Yusof ◽

Ahmad Sanusi Hassan ◽

Ali Ahmed Salem Bahdad

Keyword(s):

Construction Projects ◽

Partial Least Square ◽

Least Square ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Schedule Performance ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Positive Effect

PurposeThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had major impacts on the performance of construction projects that have adopted social distancing measures. This study examines the effect of social distancing measures on project schedule performance through job reorganization on construction project sites.Design/methodology/approachResponses were obtained through a survey of 154 construction projects and analysed using the partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique.FindingsThe findings established that social distancing has a negative effect on schedule performance, social distancing has a positive effect on job re-organization and job re-organization has a positive effect on schedule performance. Additionally, the results indicate that job re-organization partially mediates the relationship between social distancing and schedule performance, while social distancing moderates the relationship between job re-organization and schedule performance with low social distancing having the stronger positive effect.Originality/valueThis study contributes theoretically to a greater understanding of the impact of adopting COVID-19 safety measures such as social distancing on the schedule performance of construction projects. The study also shows how social distancing could lead to schedule performance through job reorganization.

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The Emotional Intelligence Sports Inventory (ESi): A cross-cultural analysis - Australia, Wales, and England

World Studies in Education ◽

10.7459/wse/19.12.02 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 7-28

Author(s):

Kenneth H. Smith ◽

Martyn Newman ◽

Stephan Ledain ◽

Joseph Zajda

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Sport Participation ◽

Sport Performance ◽

Cultural Analysis ◽

Future Research ◽

Psychological Constructs ◽

Athletic Success ◽

Context Specific ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

It has been widely documented that psychological constructs, specifically emotional intelligence, significantly contribute to athletic success. Yet the extant literature is limited and often inconsistent. Context-specific exploration of the impact of emotional intelligence on elite athletic performance can provide richer, more informed conclusions. Thus, this study explored the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and sport performance among 389 males and females from Australia, Wales, and England. The Emotional Intelligence Sports Inventory-ESi was used to identify EI differences between gender, level of sport participation, and nationality. Results showed there were significant differences between these factors on a number of the 11 ESi subscales. The implications of the results are discussed, and it is concluded that the study’s findings will facilitate a more robust and reliable use of the ESi in future research.

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The Influence of Trust on Creativity: A Review

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.706234 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Yan Chen ◽

Cheng Yu ◽

Yuan Yuan ◽

Fang Lu ◽

Wangbing Shen

Keyword(s):

Organizational Innovation ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Future Research ◽

Entire Group ◽

Collaborative Culture ◽

Team Communication ◽

The Impact ◽

Group Trust ◽

Positive Effect

Examining the trust-creativity relationship is important to promote creativity and organizational innovation. The goal of this study is to investigate how trust influences creativity by summarizing existing findings of diverse empirical studies. The impact of trust at different levels on creativity primarily manifests in three ways: (1) individuals' cognition- and affect-based trust has a positive effect on creativity together with the role of trust-derived perspective taking in creativity; (2) interpersonal trust helps enhance the joint creativity of an entire group via mediators such as team communication and commitment together with trust-evoked safety and the motivation to risk proposing, sharing, accepting or adopting uncommon ideas; (3) group trust has a positive, mostly indirect effect on creativity via mediating variables such as collaborative culture/climate and team communication. Potential implications and avenues for future research are also discussed.

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THE ROLE OF RELIGIOUS SPIRITUALITY AND WORK ENGAGEMENT ON JOB PERFORMANCE

Journal of Technology and Operations Management ◽

10.32890/jtom2018.13.1.1 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (Number 1) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Novia Zahrah ◽

Azelin Aziz ◽

Siti Norasyikin Abdul Hamid

Keyword(s):

Job Performance ◽

Work Engagement ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Meaningful Work ◽

Future Research ◽

Human Beings ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Religious Spirituality

This paper conceptualizes the role of work engagement as mediationon the relationship between religious spirituality and job performance of Muslim employees in Malaysia. Religious spirituality involves the belief in the existence of God and the power of prayer as a way of communicating with God in all aspects of life. Religious spirituality encourages individuals to mends the relationship between God and human (habluminallah) as well as the relationship between human beings (habluminannas) in order to be able to deal with hardship and obtains long-term satisfaction. The ability of an employee to overcome any hardship will enhance their work engagement and job performance. Thus, in response to the impact of religious spirituality in enhancing work engagement and job performance, this study developseveral propositions that demonstrate the significant role of related variables in enhancing job performance. Suggestions for future research and implications of the study for managers are presented. This study recommends management and human resource practitioners to be proactive and formulate preventive strategyagainst low productivity among Muslim employees by providestraining, create an environment that supports wholeness, meaningful work, and feeling of inner satisfaction. However, there is needfor empirical studies to test the proposed relationships.

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A meta-analysis of the impact of privatization on firm performance

Management Decision ◽

10.1108/md-12-2015-0557 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 178-202 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Patricia Bachiller

Keyword(s):

Meta Analysis ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Future Research ◽

Content Type ◽

Public Offerings ◽

Managerial Implications ◽

The Common ◽

And Performance ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Purpose Despite the vast literature on privatization, the relationship between change of ownership and performance is not clear. The purpose of this paper is to understand why divergences are found between the empirical results of papers analyzed. Design/methodology/approach The author applies a meta-analysis to a sample of 60 empirical studies that analyze the performance of privatized companies. The author checks whether different results on performance can be explained by the method of privatization and the level of development of the country of privatized companies. Findings The findings indicate that companies privatized by public offerings obtain a better performance than companies privatized using other methods, such as private sale or voucher privatization, and do not support the common-place assumption that privatization in developing countries does not improve financial performance. Originality/value The study contributes to the literature on privatization because it adds new empirical evidence about the privatization programs and it first applies a meta-analysis to a sample about privatization on state-owned companies. The author discusses theoretical and managerial implications and offers suggestions for future research on privatization.

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Not If, But How CEOs Affect Product Innovation: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management ◽

10.1142/s0219877019300015 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (03) ◽

pp. 1930001 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Pascal Back ◽

Andreas Bausch

Keyword(s):

Product Innovation ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Future Research ◽

Firm Level ◽

Corporate Leaders ◽

Managerial Implications ◽

Underlying Mechanisms ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

While scholars have long emphasized the role of firms’ CEOs in shaping innovation outcomes, the question of underlying mechanisms remains widely unanswered. In light of this, we stress that the relationship between organizational aspects (e.g. resource allocation or culture) and product innovation should not mark the end of an intellectual quest. Instead, these enablers are also particularly contingent upon the corporate leaders. Based on 81 empirical studies, we reveal the impact of CEO characteristics (demographics, personality, and cognition) and leadership on firm-level variables that enable product innovation. Finally, we outline fruitful avenues for future research and provide managerial implications.

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Organizational Slack And Performance: The Impact Of Outliers

Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) ◽

10.19030/jabr.v26i1.271 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Andrew J. Wefald ◽

Jeffrey P. Katz ◽

Ronald G. Downey ◽

Kathleen G. Rust

Keyword(s):

Extreme Values ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Theory Development ◽

Future Research ◽

Organizational Slack ◽

Distributed Data ◽

Potential Impact ◽

And Performance ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Extending initial theory development and empirical studies conducted in the early 1980s, the investigation of the relationship between slack resources and the performance of the firm has experienced renewed attention.  Over the past 25 years enough empirical research has been conducted that researchers have begun to question the frequently found ambiguous results.  We assess the impact statistical outliers may have on the relationship between organizational slack and firm performance trying to determine whether the positive, curvilinear, or ambiguous results that have been reported are impacted by the presence of outliers.  We found that the measures of organizational slack were highly variable due to five general factors. When the outliers, extreme values, were statistically identified and removed, the relationship between organizational slack (Available Slack) and performance (ROA) became non-linear and consistent over years.  Implications suggest that future research should consider the potential impact that non-normal distributed data could have on the validity of findings, particularly when employing data from archival sources. Suggestions for future research in the slack-performance relationship are offered.

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The Impact of Market Orientation, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Relationship Orientation on the International Performance of SMEs

10.4018/978-1-7998-9071-3.ch013 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 203-221

Author(s):

Kabiru Sa'ad Sa'id

Keyword(s):

Market Orientation ◽

Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽

Strategic Orientation ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Future Research ◽

International Performance ◽

Relationship Orientation ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Positive Effect

The relationship between strategic orientation and SME international performance is empirically inadequate, specifically in a developing country. This study focuses on the effect of three dimensions of strategic orientation, namely market orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and relationship orientation on the international performance of SMEs applying the theory of resource-based view. The study is quantitative and uses the data collected from 296 managers of SMEs operating an international business in Nigeria. The authors revealed that entrepreneurial orientation, relationship orientation have a positive effect on firm international performance. On the other hand, market orientation has no significant impact on a firm international performance. The authors explain the managerial contribution of study findings and provide future research suggestions.

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The impact of organizational culture on project management in matrix organizations

South African Journal of Business Management ◽

10.4102/sajbm.v39i4.569 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 39 (4) ◽

pp. 27-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. M. Morrison ◽

C. J. Brown ◽

E. V.D.M. Smit

Keyword(s):

Organizational Culture ◽

Project Management ◽

Future Research ◽

Management Effectiveness ◽

Outcome Indicators ◽

Organizational Conditions ◽

Management Literature ◽

The One ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

This research empirically examined the relationship between organizational culture and the effectiveness of project management. The study made use of two conceptually developed constructs. The one, a framework of organizational culture, consists of twelve dimensions that emerged from a study of the project management literature as important organizational conditions for effective project management. The second construct, project management effectiveness, comprises eleven dimensions constituting the persistent leading and outcome indicators of project management success, similarly based on literature. The research found a statistically significant relationship between the two constructs in a sample of matrix organizations. Each of the twelve dimensions of organizational culture also correlated significantly with project management effectiveness. A total of 29 organizations, operating within the boundaries of South Africa, took part. Although generalizability is not possible, given the sample size, the study nevertheless takes a substantial step forward in this important context of project management. Pointers are offered for future research, and for organizations that find that project management fails to perform in accordance with their expectations.

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