Yasas L. Pathiranage; Lakmini V. K. Jayatilake; Ruwan Abeysekera
Volume 7, Issue 9 , September 2020, , Pages 522-544
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Syntheses of existing literature provide a framework for a broader understanding of the current state of the organizational culture. This literature review synthesized the relevant literature pertaining to the role of organizational culture on business performance in a perspective of the corporate group. ...
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Syntheses of existing literature provide a framework for a broader understanding of the current state of the organizational culture. This literature review synthesized the relevant literature pertaining to the role of organizational culture on business performance in a perspective of the corporate group. The literature review comprised various published sources on the role of organizational culture, such as journals, periodicals, seminal books, and other published materials. The review focused on the conceptualization, measurement and examines various dimensions of organizational culture on corporate performance. After analysis of a wide range of renowned literature, it was found that organizational culture has a strong impact on the organizational performance. Empirical evidences further showed that lack of cultural integration between member companies was a primary cause of failure in corporate groups. Therefore, it is ascertained that cultural enhancing would result performance enhancement. Business managers are recommended to establish an effective organizational culture in order to enhance corporate performance. Therefore, how an effective organizational culture is established to enhance the corporate performance can be recognized as a needed research scope. Moreover, this paper highlighted the prevailing theoretical and empirical gaps in the area of organizational culture towards corporate performance, and hence the findings may be useful for future similar studies.
Sakunthala Thilini Alles; Rashad Yazdanifard
Volume 4, Issue 10 , October 2017, , Pages 1049-1062
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the current service quality and the strategies of Dialog Axiata PLC in Sri Lanka, which have been implemented to achieve their organizational objectives. This research study has analyzed audit findings, survey results, observational research and content analysis ...
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the current service quality and the strategies of Dialog Axiata PLC in Sri Lanka, which have been implemented to achieve their organizational objectives. This research study has analyzed audit findings, survey results, observational research and content analysis in order to identify the current strategic position of the company and environmental analysis of the telecommunication industry. In addition, several strategic management models have employed to identify the company’s potential to maintain long term strategic competitiveness over competitors within the industry. Furthermore, this paper has discussed about the strategic issues, which the company had to face because of the lack of strategic planning and consideration. According to the findings and results, there are several recommendations, which have been mentioned at the end of analysis in order to enhance the quality of the service, which would enable the Dialog Axiata to be competitive in the telecommunication industry further. The paper suggests that the company should reposition its product lines, invest more on R&D capabilities, and review its Human Resource Management practises in order to gain a significant position in the market.
Ghasem Ansari Renani; Bakhtiar Ghaderi; Omar Mahmoudi
Volume 4, Issue 10 , October 2017, , Pages 989-1001
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The aim of the present research investigates the relation between organizational structure and effectiveness of communication. The research methodology is survey and correlative. All employees of Marivan education department were chosen as the statistical population that 92 persons of them were chosen ...
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The aim of the present research investigates the relation between organizational structure and effectiveness of communication. The research methodology is survey and correlative. All employees of Marivan education department were chosen as the statistical population that 92 persons of them were chosen through Sampling Morgan Table. The questionnaire was used to collect data. Experts’ view and Cronbach’s alpha was used for the validity and reliability of the inventory. Research data were analyzed by SPSS17 and LISREL 8.50 Software's. Statistical methods of Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data. The research results showed that organizational structure has a direct and positive relationship with ineffective communication. Also results showed that centralization, complexity and formality had the most influence on ineffective communication in current research sample respectively. In other words with increasing centralization, complexity and formality communication (diagonal ,horizontal, upward and downward) in different levels of organization become ineffective.
Athula Ekanayake; Ravindra Hewa Kuruppuge
Volume 4, Issue 10 , October 2017, , Pages 1020-1039
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Following the notions of agency and stewardship theories, this study examined the empirical validity of the relationship between governance of family owned businesses and firm performance, employing a sample of 82 family businesses in 5 main commercial districts in Sri Lanka. Governance variables related ...
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Following the notions of agency and stewardship theories, this study examined the empirical validity of the relationship between governance of family owned businesses and firm performance, employing a sample of 82 family businesses in 5 main commercial districts in Sri Lanka. Governance variables related to family ownership, involvement in management and experience were examined in order to assess their influence on firm performance, measured in both financial and non-financial terms. Whilst sales growth was used to measure financial performance, 5-point Likert scale, ranging from much lower to much higher, has been used to assess respondents’ views on non-financial performance of their firms, controlling the cultural factors. The results were in favour of family ownership and family involvement in management both of which influence significantly on financial and non-financial performance of the family owned businesses. But, the study did not support to prove the relationship between experience of owner managers and firm performance.
Nader Seyed Kalali; Mansoor Momeni; Elham Heydari
Volume 2, Issue 8 , August 2015, , Pages 801-809
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Strategic thinking is one of the most important capabilities which managers of today’s organizations must possess. Holding companies, due to the kind of problems that they experience, are in serious need of managers capable of strategic thinking. The present research has been conducted with the ...
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Strategic thinking is one of the most important capabilities which managers of today’s organizations must possess. Holding companies, due to the kind of problems that they experience, are in serious need of managers capable of strategic thinking. The present research has been conducted with the aim of identifying the individual dimensions of strategic thinking in holding companies’ managers in Iran. In this regard, a number of managers who have had the experience of being members of the board of directors or working as CEOs of these firms have been asked to express their opinions about strategic thinking and their views have been analyzed using fuzzy cognitive maps. Results suggest that having vision, ability to analyze, having systems thinking, ability to question, creativity, ability to make synergy and ability to create advantage are the main elements of strategic thinking in successful managers of holding companies. In addition, the relationships among these variables have been explained.
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