ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: DENISON'S FOCUS ON ECUADORIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
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Studies of organizational culture in universities and institutes of higher education have acquired relevance due to the valuable information they generate about the identity of an organization. The organizational culture described as a set of values, beliefs and artifacts not only define the behavior of people and social entities, but are aspects that are transmitted from generation to generation, through the teaching-learning processes and that are transmitted through the knowledge, attitudes and behavior that the members of the educational faculty have. Hence, the importance of developing this research work that seeks to characterize the organizational culture, analyze the dominant dimensions and design the cultural model in a higher education institute in Ecuador. For this purpose, the Denison instrument is applied to the teaching population of the institute. In the treatment of the information, the statistical package SPSS and Microsoft Excel are used, as well as statistical tools such as Cronbach's Alpha and Principal Component Analysis. The results reveal the dominance of a mission-oriented culture.
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