Mapping Organizational Culture Schemes Based on Correlational Class Analysis

Abstract

Organizational culture tends to be investigated based on organizational consensus degree, even when it is seen as shared meanings. However, sharing meanings does not imply having the same opinions. On the contrary, there may be agreement on which cultural elements are relevant, even when opinions differ from each other, a fact that enables individuals to share cultural schemes, although they disagree with each other’s answers. Recent advancements in the cultural cognition field have enabled the present tutorial article to map organizational culture schemes based on correlational class analysis. This method divides the sample into scheme classes by listing respondents based on the linear dependence degree between answers given to a questionnaire, rather than on agreement between respondents. The aim of this tutorial article is to use a scale of organizational values adapted to the Brazilian context in order to map cultural schemes based on a survey conducted with 207 workers from different companies. Results point toward two different scheme classes (reactive and resilient) that condition the effect of attitudes and organizational structure on employee appreciation and satisfaction. Besides providing a tutorial on how to use the investigated technique, the study points out its relevance for organizational culture field.

Concept Class Analysis: A Method for Identifying Cultural Schemas in Texts

“…Together, RCA and CCA have enjoyed wide empirical application. They have been used to study taste (Daenekindt 2019;Willekens and Daenekindt 2020), public opinion and politics (Baldassarri and Goldberg 2014;Wu 2014;Boutyline and Vaisey 2017;Daenekindt et al 2017;Barbet 2020;Hu and Yin 2020), science and religion , moral schemas about markets McDonnell et al 2020), organizational values (Rossoni et al 2020), and literary schemas (Rawlings and Childress 2019). What all of these applications have in common, of course, is the reliance on attitudinal measures for identifying schemas.…”