Public Sector Organizational Culture: Experience from Frontline Bureaucracies

Md. Morshed Alom

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Abstract: This chapter discusses the practice of organizational culture by the frontline bureaucrats in Bangladesh. Culture scholars argue that organizational culture--commonly defined as the beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices of the members of an organization--is a powerful force in determining the health and well-being of an organization. Scholars also suggest the existence of different dimensions of organizational culture. Although they do not agree in naming these dimensions, commonalities are found in their understanding. How organizational culture is practiced by the frontline bureaucrats in Bangladesh has not been studied much. A study was designed to know how the frontline public bureaucrats practice organizational culture and how they differ in their practices along their service lines. Four dimensions of organizational culture--power distance, uncertainty avoidance tendency, participation, and team orientation--were considered. The chosen culture dimensions impact the overall management of any public sector organization. Three hundred and twenty-six frontline public bureaucrats were studied using a survey questionnaire. Both descriptive and inferential statistics have been used for analyzing the collected data. Findings from independent samples t-tests revealed that the frontline bureaucrats significantly differ along their service lines in practicing the culture dimensions.

Keywords: public sector; frontline bureaucracy; organizational culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.91177

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