An Investigation of Organizational Culture of a Military Unit by Institutional Approach

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Institutional approach is essentially important for commanders, educational advisers, and human resource development administrators. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the organizational culture of a military unit by an institutional approach. This research follows a descriptive approach through quantitative method. The statistical society includes the entire members of the military unit. A sample of 265 people were selected by cluster sampling. The data collection tool was a valid and reliable questionnaire. The reliability of the instrument obtained by Cronbach's alpha was 0.93. The results of data analysis were analyzed using SPSS24 and Excel365 software in five religious (3.50), environment-based (3.08), human-oriented (3.10), idealistic (3.25) and law-oriented (3.18) dimensions. The results indicated that this military unit stands at a moderate status. The results also showed the dimension of religion gained the highest average (3.50), which should be reinforced and preserved by Jihadi morality and Jihadi management. The lowest dimension was given to environment-orientation (3.08), which should be promoted by training and changing of attitude.

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 10, Issue 4 - Serial Number 34
serial no.34
February 2019
Pages 217-232

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  • Receive Date: 11 June 2018
  • Revise Date: 14 October 2018
  • Accept Date: 13 December 2018

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