A Research Between Organizational Culture and Organizational Power in the Context of Denison Organizational Culture Model

Abstract

Organizations in today's world put in tremendous effort to survive in the ever changing competitive environment. Organizational culture plays a significant role in adapting to such changes. Organizational culture both has an impact on multiple organizational variables and affects perceptions of organizational power which are one of the main variables to provide direction for employee behaviour. The objective of this study is to demonstrate the extent that organizational culture affects the use of organizational power and managerial power perceptions. When the findings obtained are examined, it has been identified that there is a positive and directly proportional relationship between all the organizational culture and organizational power variables, and sub-dimensions of these variables. Also, it has been revealed that organizational culture predicts organizational power and organizational power sources. When considered within this context, it has been concluded that position related powers, consisting of legitimate power primarily, coercive power and reward power, are preferred more intensely than individual related powers, based on expert power, referent power and knowledge based power in all analyses.