Assessment of the Impact of Organizational Culture on Employee Creativity; A Case Study of Minkah-Premo & Co

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2012-02-06
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This study examined the impact of organizational culture on employee creativity, using Minkah-Premo & Co (MPAC) as a case study. This case study and questionnaire-interview based research employed the convenience and purposive sampling techniques to select a sample of 40 employees out of which 32 responded to and returned the research questionnaire. The Holistic Management (KEYS) Model (2000) was used in analyzing the organizational culture of MPAC, it came out that, the culture of MPAC was not open to creativity. Pearson’s Correlation coefficient of (0.716) on the data gathered, showed a strong and positive relationship between organizational culture and employee creativity. Employee creativity was positively related to supervisor-rated employee job performance. Employee autonomy had the greatest and positive impact on creativity whilst financial reward (for creative work) was negatively correlated with employee creativity. Based on this study, it was concluded that; organizational culture impacts employee creativity positively with ‘autonomy’ having the most impact on creativity. Besides, it was affirmed that there exist a positive correlation between employee creativity and job performance.
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A Thesis submitted to the Institute of Distance Learning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Commonwealth Executive Masters of Business Administration,
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