ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS SUCCESS: THE ROLE OF PARTICIPATORY PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT
Keywords:
Organisational Culture, Participatory Planning, Organisational Commitment, Information Technology
Abstract
Organizational culture is an important factor to the success of a project. Organizational culture offers a theoretical perspective on the people-centered management of an organization. It focuses on the intangible nature of an organization, encompassing organizational behaviour and the formal structures and practices in an organization. Success of organisations depends on the organizational culture.
This paper discusses organizational culture and presents a model for managing cultural change in order to foster an organizational climate conducive to the successful implementation of information technology systems participatory planning playing a key role.
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[18] Larson, P. and Svendsen, D. (1997) Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC
[19] Louis, M. (1980) Organizations as culture-bearing milieux, in Organizational Symbolism (eds. L. Pondy et al.), University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
[20] Meyer, J., & Allen, N. (1997). Commitment in the workplace, theory research and application. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
[21] Miller, K. 2003. ‘Values, attitudes and job satisfaction’ In Robbins, S.P., Odendaal A. & Roodt, G.(eds), Organisational Behaviour: Global and Southern African Perspectives. Cape Town: Pearson Education South Africa.
[22] Morrow, P.C. (1993). The theory and measurement of work commitment. Greenwich, CT: Jai Press Inc.
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[26] for Information Managers (pp. 7–31). Elsevier.
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2022-07-26
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Morgan , A., & Kidombo , P. H. (2022). ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS SUCCESS: THE ROLE OF PARTICIPATORY PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT. IJRDO - Journal of Business Management, 8(7), 53-59. https://doi.org/10.53555/bm.v8i7.5199
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