Correlates of Organizational Culture and Social Responsibility: An Empirical Study of College Teachers

Abstract

This paper tries to ascertain the relationship between organizational culture and social responsibility of college teachers in Pondicherry. In this research, for the purpose of ascertaining the relationship between these two, six organizational cultural variables i.e. workplace behavior, internal communication, discipline in the organization, workplace co-ordination, organization values and organization vision have been designed and developed through review of literature and social responsibility was taken as single variable. For ascertaining the relationship between them, it has been hypothesized that strong culture is associated with social responsibility where as weak culture is not associated with the social responsibility of college teachers. Survey method was conducted and data were collected from 150 college teachers by questionnaire method in the Pondicherry. Results revealed that the workplace behaviors, internal communication, discipline in the organization, workplace co-ordination, organization values and organization vision can increase social responsibility among college teachers. As far as the individual variable is concerned, it is predicted that organization vision, workplace co-ordination, organization value follows previous one (r: 0.618), and discipline in the organization are the most influencing factors and have strong relationship with social responsibility. It is concluded that strong culture leads to social responsibility, whereas weak culture leads to lack of social responsibility among the college teachers.

Keywords: Organization, Culture, Organizational Culture and Social Responsibility, College Teachers

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