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The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24253 The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture Fisher, Greg ichelp@gibs.co.za Leitch, Cedric UCTD Organizational culture Entrepreneur Personality Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Theory suggests that the source of an organization’s culture is the founder, yet few empirical studies exist on the relationship between the entrepreneur’s personality and the organizational culture. However, the constructs of personality dimensions and organisational culture have been well developed and researched. For years, entrepreneurship research has explored the implications of the entrepreneur’s personality, with the majority of the work focused on the individual’s likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur. This study examines the relationship of the entrepreneurs personality to organizational culture. Four of the Big Five Factor personality attributes, namely, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience and Agreeableness, provide the measures of the entrepreneur’s personality. The competing values model measured the Hierarchical, Market, Adhocracy and Clan organizational cultures. As hypothesised the individual constructs that were found to have strong significant relationships between the personality dimensions and organisational cultures were Conscientiousness and Hierarchical culture; Openness to Experience and Adhocracy culture; and Agreeableness and Clan culture. Extraversion and Market culture were found to have a negative relationship. Influence as a moderator was found to be insignificant. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T16:58:51Z 2011-05-20 2013-09-06T16:58:51Z 2010-11-10 2010 2011-04-30 Dissertation Leitch, C 2010, The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24253 > F11/222/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24253 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04302011-222420/ © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretori application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Organizational culture Entrepreneur Personality The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture |
| title | The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture |
| title_full | The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture |
| title_fullStr | The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture |
| title_full_unstemmed | The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture |
| title_short | The forces of a character: does an entrepreneur's personality affect organizational culture |
| title_sort | forces of a character does an entrepreneur s personality affect organizational culture |
| topic | UCTD Organizational culture Entrepreneur Personality |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24253 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04302011-222420/ |