A Study of Organizational Culture and Performance of HEIs in Pakistan: 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 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 institute. 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 universities/HEIs of Pakistan. Various statistical methods such as one way ANOVA, Independent Sample T-test, Correlation analysis, Regression analysis have been applied for data analysis. The findings from this research provide evidence that individual readiness for change acts as partial mediator between the relationship of organizational culture and organizational performance. The study's findings provide clear 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.