An Investigation of Organizational Culture in Imam Ali Military University Based on Daniel Denison's Model

Organizational culture is a new notion to the field of knowledge management and organizational behavior. Culture has been traditionally used to describe life quality of human society; however, organizational culture and whatever concerned with people's action and behavior in an organization have been rarely investigated. Knowledge and understanding what builds up organizational culture and the way it is established and sustained assist us to justify organizational behavior in the best way possible. Through understanding organizational culture exercising control and modeling staff behavior, rendering identity to them creating group commitment and stabilizing totality of an organization are made feasible. This study was an attempt to investigate organizational culture in Imam Ali University based on Daniel Denison's model as a common and agreed –upon approach.Findings revealed that the university moderate and relatively higher measures in terms of all four aspects of the model including engagement, adaptation, adaptability and mission; however, the adaptation and mission criteria were evaluated as the highest in rank. Nevertheless, the university was evaluated weak in terms of coordination and development.On the flexibility– stability continuum, stability loads more, but on that of the external –internal one no significant difference was recorded. In other words, these factors enjoyed equal load, though internal tendency loaded a bit more than the external one.