A Study of Organizational Culture: Octapace-Profile

Abstract

This research aims to understand what organizational culture is, and to measure the OCTAPACE value of the employees working in Heinz India Pvt. Ltd. (Aligarh). A healthy organizational culture rests on eight strong pillars of the-OCTAPACE profile (developed by U. Park) refers to Openness, Confrontation, Trust, Authenticity, Proactive, Autonomy, Collaboration and Experimentation. The study the OCTAPACE culture of any organization helps us in giving proper training to the employees for maintaining a healthy environment and it also helps in dealing with various problems that exist in the organization. The 4-point scale developed by Pareek has been used for the present study. As many as 8 dimensions were taken to judge the organizational culture. The main objective of the study is to study the organizational culture of the selected company in the manufacturing sector and to identify and measure the perceived organizational culture and its various dimensions. 100 responses to a 4 point scale questionnaire based on the OCTAPACE profile were obtained from the organization. Research type is Descriptive in nature. Primary as well secondary data are used. To collect primary data, a structured questionnaire developed by Udai Pareek was used. Sampling method is probability sampling (Systematic sampling method). Analysis was done using SPSS=17, OCTAPACE value was measured and employees were categorized into three different zones (according to their work design); ZONE-B(manufacturing), ZONE-D(transport/engineering) and ZONE-E(offices).