Organizational Culture and the Military

Breslin, Charles B.

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“…In the Ghana Armed Forces, as part of the training of Officer Cadets (Ghana Military Academy and Recruits (Army Recruit Training Centre), military culture is taught in all aspects. Soldiers are obligated to strive for values of right and good (Breslin, 2000). Sense of Duty is based on the preservation of life and society and is ranked high among the list of military ethos (Riccio et al, 2004;Riccio, 2010).…”

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“…Sense of Duty is based on the preservation of life and society and is ranked high among the list of military ethos (Riccio et al, 2004;Riccio, 2010). It raises the stakes for honor, commitment to duty, unconditional service, and allegiance to the nation, and achievement of the greater good to the sacrifice of self, and unqualified authority to those in command (Breslin, 2000). The soldier does not do what is expected of him because he feels it is good but because he is commanded to do it.…”

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Assessing the Effects of Regimented Administrative Structure of Education on Pupils Academic Performance of Basic Schools in Military Barracks, Ghana

Brenya

Arthur

Opoku

et al. 2021

JSDS

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Over the last five years, there has been a downward trend in the BECE performance by pupils in the Basic schools of military barracks in Ghana. The military high command has been concerned about the current performance of pupils in the BECE, and the responsibility lies with the Directorate of Education of the Ghana Armed forces to undertake all efforts at reversing the tide. The study is predicated upon the need to explore all possible causes of a consistent downward trend of BECE performance over the past five years. It is speculated that in the case of the Armed Forces schools, the quality of education could either be significantly enhanced or diminished by the peculiarity of the administration. Thus, the study quantitatively examined the place of military culture as a part of the administration and how the phenomenon impacts academic performance. The findings revealed that not only does military culture impact teacher work output, but the coercive nature of the relationship between the Educational Officers and civilian teaching staff is detrimental to the academic environment. Therefore, this paper recommends that the coercive administrative approach be modified to allow for a much more cooperative and social approach, which would create a conducive and free environment for academic work and consequently improve academic performances.

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Assessing the Effects of Regimented Administrative Structure of Education on Pupils Academic Performance of Basic Schools in Military Barracks, Ghana

Brenya

Arthur

Opoku

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“…the world of business. The strength of military culture is explained by the existence of one complex characteristic -"the sense of duty", described in four perspectives (Tinoco and Arnaud, 2013): y a set of values like integrity, subordination, unbending obedience, fervent loyalty, duty, selflessness and strict discipline (Trainor, 2000), y a "set of normative self-understandings", deeply held by personnel members, directing their formulation of professional identity, code of conduct, and social worth (Snider 1999), y an integral and the innermost component of the military culture, containing cultural attributes as honor and commitment to duty, unconditional service and allegiance to the nation, achievement of the greater good to the sacrifice of self, and unqualified authority to those in command (Breslin, 2000;Riccio et al, 2004), and y a set of attitudes and behaviors for personnel members, defining what is considered right, good, and important (Breslin, 2000). Furthermore, Tinoco and Arnaud (2013) outline key nuances of military culture by means of applying the seven dimensions of organizational culture profile (OCP), developed by O'Reilly, y Obligatory unit cohesion and teamwork in the most difficult circumstances (team orientation dimension) y The use of specific machines and equipment requires serious employees' orientation to detail and precision (attention to detail dimension).…”

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The Professed Culture of the Business Organizations in the Defense Industry in Bulgaria. What Does it Look Like? And do they Need it?

2020

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Purpose – This article aims to outline and analyze the role, structure and dominating content of professed organizational culture among the companies in the defense industry in Bulgaria as conscious and the official expression of their leadership intentions within the contemporary business environment, uniquely justifying the existence of each entity. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative study is conducted, based on a literature review of academic publications in the sphere of professed organizational culture. Furthermore, the websites of the target companies were carefully examined in order to outline the practical approach to presenting the unique official culture of defense business organizations. Findings – An elaborate set of cultural attributes to be found on the second level in Edgar Schein’s model of organizational culture is identified. Based on literature review, the intersection between official corporate culture expressions and defense sector is outlined. Important nuances in the development of Bulgarian defense, technological and industrial base are described, encompassing the transition period to market economy and democratic political system. A survey of professed culture attributes is conducted among the members of Bulgarian defense, technological and industrial base. It is concluded that these companies prefer disclosing their official cultures in a very succinct way to utilizing the potential power and impact of the most popular firm documents in this field as mission and vision or relying on small number of their simpler building elements. Recommendations to senior managers of the Bulgarian defense companies regarding smart and intensive use of official culture elements are given. Research limitations/implications – The financial data for the surveyed companies is not accessible. Originality/value – A snapshot of preferred professed culture attributes among the members of Bulgarian defense, technological and industrial base is composed, implying their leadership strategic intentions. The second level in Edgar Schein’s model of organizational culture is populated with a set of cultural attributes.

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“…3 The emergence and evolution of these mechanisms may be significantly driven by rising levels of economic interdependence and involve negotiation with domestic and foreign non-state actors, but regionalism as a project should be conceived in the first instance as "political and intergovernmental". 4 Breslin uses the terms microregionalisation and microregionalism to characterise the operation of these processes at the sub-national level: that is, market transactions and state policies which produce, or seek to manage, an integrating social space across sub-national boundaries. This creates a matrix of inter-relationships as suggested in Figure 1.…”

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Greater China and East Asian integration: Regionalism and rivalry

Kerr¹

2004

East Asia

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R~ gionalism is about change in the use and understanding of social space: ow states, markets and populations--if they are permitted--reshape relationships, boundaries, and ultimately collective identities to suit their interests. Reaching unambiguous definitions for these processes has always presented difficulties for social scientists, however. Is there one set of defining characteristics for regionalism? How readily can we identify relationships and boundaries that are necessarily in a state of flux? At what stage does the crucial shift in identities take place? In his classic examination Thompson asserted that there were only four attributes that were both necessary and sufficient for the existence of a regional subsystemS:1. regularity and intensity of interaction so that change at one point effected change at other points; 2, the actors are generally proximate; 3. internal and external actors recognise this subsystem as a distinctive area; 4. the subsystem consists of two, or probably more, actors.Whilst suitably parsimonious these conditions--proposed 30 years a g o --present clear problems in the age of globalisation. Globalisation has transformed our understanding of what is generally proximate so that propositions 1 and 3 assume greater significance. Yet the last 20 years have seen an intensification and regularisation of interaction between many of the world's countries without these necessarily been drawn into a region that is recognisable either in their own eyes or in the eyes of others.These constraints are particularly notable with regard to East Asia. East Asia has not been transformed solely by regionalism but by globalisation: the intensity and regularity of intra-regional change has been inseparable from inter-regional interaction. Defining a distinctive identity for this open region in terms of mutual recognition has been most problematic of all: by what forms of interaction--economic, cultural, political, demographic--should it be defined? If by differing forms, how do these sit together and impact upon

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Organizational Culture and the Military

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

Assessing the Effects of Regimented Administrative Structure of Education on Pupils Academic Performance of Basic Schools in Military Barracks, Ghana

Assessing the Effects of Regimented Administrative Structure of Education on Pupils Academic Performance of Basic Schools in Military Barracks, Ghana

The Professed Culture of the Business Organizations in the Defense Industry in Bulgaria. What Does it Look Like? And do they Need it?

Greater China and East Asian integration: Regionalism and rivalry

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