Theoretical consideration of the influence of organizational culture on the process of applying business strategies

Abstract

In recent years, the management of Japanese agriculture has been changing, and a situation that can be called the “organizational era” is on the horizon. In an agricultural corporation, in addition to the workplace atmosphere and teamwork, high–quality interactions between organizational members, such as analyses of the work consciousness of the individuals who make up the organization, and human resource development, are critical to the formation of an organizational culture. In this paper, organizational culture is regarded as a catalyst for agricultural management to conduct strategies using a management philosophy. Further, I have explained the contents of such a culture’s catalytic function and quantitatively analyzed the influence of organizational culture factors on team performance. The following three issues have been specifically addressed in this paper.

First, I have examined the theoretical and conceptual structure of the effects of the existence of organizational culture when an agricultural corporation intends to change organizational structure

through the execution of management strategies and the practice of management innovation. Second, I have organized the factors necessary for a comprehensive understanding of organizational culture.

Specifically, I have classified organizational culture into internal structural factors and corresponding external regional factors. Additionally, for the internal structural factors, I have presented a group of survey items that systematically explain the organizational culture using behavioral science. Third, to demonstrate these factors, I conducted a questionnaire survey targeting agricultural corporations and ran a quantitative analysis of organizational culture constituent factors. I analyzed the characteristics of the distribution of scores of organizational culture factors according to the characteristics of the company and department, and conducted a quantitative analysis on the effect of organizational culture on team performance.