Organizational Culture and Scale Development: Methodological Challenges and Future Directions

• Main Authors: Bavik Ali, Duncan Tara
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2014-12-01
• Series: Nang Yan Business Journal
• Subjects: organizational culture; hospitality industry; scale development; organizational culture scales; l83
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/nybj-2015-0005

Defining and measuring organizational culture (OC) is of paramount importance to organizations because a strong culture could potentially increase service quality and yield sustainable competitive advantages. However, such process could be challenging to managers because the scope of OC has been defined differently across disciplines and industries, which has led to the development of various scales for measuring OC. In addition, previously developed OC scales may also not be fully applicable in the hospitality and tourism context. Therefore, by highlighting the key factors affecting the business environment and the unique characteristics of hospitality industry, this paper aims to align the scope of OC closely with the industry and to put forth the need for a new OC scale that accurately responds to the context of the hospitality industry.