Organizational Culture and Performance of Higher Educational Institutions: the Mediating Role of Individual Readiness for Change

Abstract

This study is an enquiry to find out relationship between organizational culture and organizational performance of higher educational institutions (HEIs) of Pakistan with mediating role of individual readiness for change. The bottom line of the research is to determine the significance of organizational culture and individual readiness for change in academic leaders that leads to heightened performance of educational institutions. Further addition to the study is comparison of different dimensions of organizational culture with organizational performance with mediating role of individual readiness for change. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from 307 doctorate degree holding faculty members working in universities/HEIs of Pakistan. The findings from this research supported that individual readiness for change acts as partial mediator between the relationship of organizational culture and organizational performance. The study's findings provide understanding about the relationship between different dimensions of organizational culture with organizational performance. Study helps in providing guidelines to the policy makers and leadership of universities that how organizational culture and individual readiness for change can help to elevate organizational performance, increase productivity and enhance quality research output to secure respectable place in international research arena and raking of HEIs.

Keywords: Organizational culture, Individual readiness for change, Organizational performance, Higher Education Institutions.