Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Research in Management
Year: 2024
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Organizational Culture Promoting Business Success and Development in Kibbutz Industry
Yaffa Moskovich
ABSTRACT:
This research examines the success of kibbutz industry; the claim in this study is that the industry, that developed unique organizational culture that contributes its huge success. This research would like to understand the dynamic of organizational culture on its organizational success. This study can provide some practical advice to managers how to improve business success. This study illuminates the importance of preserving original cultural features, as an economic source to business prosperity. A case study documented the organizational history and culture of kibbutz Industries. This method identified and reported the complex features and characteristics of that phenomenon. The study used ethnographic interviews and document analysis. The findings in the two factories reflected their ability to assimilate capitalist features into their organizational culture while preserving much of their kibbutz nature, expressed in various cultural features. These factories preferred kibbutz members over outsiders and maintained much of the original organizational democracy and equality among managers and workers. In addition, the firms demonstrated their concern for the well-being of their elderly workers by providing special work conditions that fit those workers’ abilities. This mixture of expertise; professionalism; along with internal democracy, equity, and communal concern could be an example for other factories seeking business success.
keywords: organizational culture, organizational success, business development, kibbutz industry, cooperatives