Individual Perceptions of Organizational Cultures: A Methodological Treatise on Levels of Analysis

Organization Studies - Tập 14 Số 4 - Trang 483-503 - 1993
Geert Hofstede1, Michael Harris Bond2, Chung‐Leung Luk2
1U Limburg, Inst for Research on Intellectual Cooperation, Maastricht, Netherlands
2The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Data from a survey study of organizational cultures in 20 organizational units in Denmark and the Netherlands were re-analyzed at the individual level, after elimination of between-unit variance. A factor analysis showed individuals' values to be composed of six dimensions, and individuals' perceptions of their organiza tion's practices of another six dimensions, entirely different from the dimensions found earlier to apply at the organizational level. The scores on these new dimen sions are related to various demographic characteristics of the respondents. This case is used for a methodological treatise stressing the need to choose the proper level of analysis for the problem at hand, a need which is too seldom recognized.

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Organization Studies

Tập 14 Số 4

483-503

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