The Impact of Organizational Culture on the Decision-Making Process for Kuwait University

Abstract

This research is aimed at investigating and studying the impact of the prevailing organizational culture on decision-making at Kuwait University. The analytical descriptive approach was used to collect and analyzes data from a sample of 127 leaders who currently occupy leadership positions and others who have left and return to their previous work as faculty members in Kuwait University. This study has reached a set of results based on the study. One of the most important of these results the convergence of the evaluation of both university leaders and faculty members of the nature of the organization culture prevailing in the administrative climate at Kuwait University. The study also found that both leaders and faculty members believe that the higher the quality of the organizational culture domains prevailing in the university, the better the administrative decision-making process with all its components. This contributes to the growth of organizational culture and improved decision-making process at Kuwait University. The study also found that national cultures only partially influence decision-making process in a certain environment. This study recommends to the management policy-makers that they should understand the nature of decision. They should also have an understanding of the prevailing organizational culture in order to add value to effectiveness and implementation of decision-making process, through an impact based decision-making process.