Organizational Culture: An Empirical Study using OCTAPACE Framework

Organisational culture is hypothesized to play a decisive role in the development of a unique corporate identity. This unique identity provides organizations with the opportunity to attain strategic leadership. Keeping in view the vital role that culture plays in the success of any organization, the present study was undertaken with the objective of studying the cultural pattern in any organization. The study is based on the concept of the OCTAPACE culture ¿ an acronym for Openness, Confrontation, Trust, Authenticity, Proaction, Autonomy, Collaboration, and Experimentation. As many as 8 dimensions were taken to judge the organizational culture. The OCTAPACE profile is a 40 item instrument that gives the profile of the organizations ethos in eight values.