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<p>The present study aims to investigate the effects of organizational culture and openness to experience personality trait on work engagement in a collectivistic country context. A within-subject, vignette-based experiment was conducted to compare the effects of clan and hierarchy cultures on work engagement among Turkish employees. Results indicated that hierarchy culture and clan culture both lead to high work engagement. However, mixed-design ANOVA results revealed that organizational culture type neither individually nor interacting with openness to experience lead significant differences in work engagement levels. The coexistence of a clan culture and hierarchy culture in Turkish companies may be one explanation for these findings. The knowledge of how and under what conditions organizational culture affects work engagement may be enhanced by future cross- country comparative studies.</p>
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The present study aims to investigate the effects of organizational culture and openness to experience personality trait on work engagement in a collectivistic country context. A within-subject, vignette-based experiment was conducted to compare the effects of clan and hierarchy cultures on work engagement among Turkish employees. Results indicated that hierarchy culture and clan culture both lead to high work engagement. However, mixed-design ANOVA results revealed that organizational culture type neither individually nor interacting with openness to experience lead significant differences in work engagement levels. The coexistence of a clan culture and hierarchy culture in Turkish companies may be one explanation for these findings. The knowledge of how and under what conditions organizational culture affects work engagement may be enhanced by future cross- country comparative studies.

Exploring the Relationship between Organizational Cultures, Openness to Experience and Work Engagement

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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The present study aims to investigate the effects of organizational culture and openness to experience personality trait on work engagement in a collectivistic...

Exploring the Relationship between Organizational Cultures, Openness to Experience and Work Engagement

Published Online: Jul 14, 2023

Page range: 2108 - 2118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2023-0184

Keywords
organizational culture, work engagement, openness to experience, vignette-based experiment, collectivistic country context

© 2023 Damlasu Uyuğ Şengün et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Exploring the Relationship between Organizational Cultures, Openness to Experience and Work Engagement

Published Online: Jul 14, 2023

Page range: 2108 - 2118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2023-0184

Keywordsorganizational culture, work engagement, openness to experience, vignette-based experiment, collectivistic country context

© 2023 Damlasu Uyuğ Şengün et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
organizational culture, work engagement, openness to experience, vignette-based experiment, collectivistic country context