Shahrokh Alizdeh Case Study

The author Shahrokh Alizdeh writes, the main aim of this study is surviving organizational culture constructs in the development of organizational trust, in Moghan Agro-Industry Company. He states, his methods of study by first using specific dimensions of organizational culture that was a task-oriented culture, support-oriented culture, achievement-oriented culture, and power-oriented culture. The writer adds secondly, a focus on organizational trust according to Colquitt et al (2009). Alizdeh states, the use of informants from Moghan Agro-Industry Company in which he explored dimensions of organizational culture and organizational trust as he tested the hypothesis. The data was collected from 196 employees of Moghan Agro-Industry Company

He informs the reader of a number of central aspects of culture as: (1) there is an evaluative element involving social expectations and standards; the values and beliefs that people hold central and that bind organizational groups; (2) Culture is a set of more material elements or artifacts which are the signs and symbols that the organization is recognized by and are the events, behaviors and people that embody culture; and (3) The medium of culture is social interaction, the web of communications that constitute a community. Here a shared language is particularly important in expressing and signifying a distinctive organizational culture, per the study of authors Rahimi and Vazifeh Damirchi (Rahimi and Vazifeh Damirchi, 2012). However, according to social scientists an operational definition of culture is noted as the attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors that are shared by a particular group of people that uses identifiable, measurable, and enduring behavioral components. (Deresky. H., 2006; Lee and Yu, 2004; Kessapidou and Varsakelis,

His research method consisted of: updating the Organizational Culture of Diana C. Physey (2004) to identify specific dimensions of organizational culture (task-oriented culture, support-oriented culture, achievement-oriented culture, power-oriented culture). Secondly, he focused on organizational trust dimension according to Colquitt et al (2009). He used informants from Moghan Agro- Industry Company to explore dimensions of organizational culture and organizational trust and test their