Analysis of the Impact of Organizational Culture on Manager's Decision Making Patterns in Iranian Governmental Departments (Case Study: Government Departments of Sarpolzohab City)

Abstract

Culture in the broadest sense refers to complex and advanced human products such as art, philosophy, science and technology and in the social sciences is the shed, to a system of shared meanings, which accepted in collectively reveal way by a certain group at a specific time based on this system carried out meanings, Interaction and behavior of the group. So, the purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of Organizational Culture on Manager's Decision Making Patterns in Iranian Governmental Departments Case study: Government Departments of Sarpolzohab City. The statistical population of the study consisted of 60 subjects from which between them. 52 subjects were selected by Simple random sampling and by using Cochran's formula as samples for the second half of 2013. So this research is descriptive - survey of correlation type. For data collection were used the decision making Questionnaire Robbins (1990) and Organizational culture questionnaire Hofstede (1991). To examine the questionnaire validity was used content validity (verification of questionnaire by a group of university professors) and reliability of the questionnaires was investigated also with calculating by Cronbach alpha coefficient 0.750 for the first questionnaire, and 0.780 for second questionnaire. The results of testing hypotheses by SPSS software in two levels of descriptive and inferential test showed that Organizational Culture has a significant effect on Manager's Decision Making Patterns in Iranian Governmental Departments.