Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions
The practice of organisational culture plays a major role in enhancing organisational and sustainable growth through innovative leadership and a sound sense of community. In order to create the right culture, sustainability must be embedded in the institution’s or organisation’s day-to-day decisions...
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| description | The practice of organisational culture plays a major role in enhancing organisational and sustainable growth through innovative leadership and a sound sense of community. In order to create the right culture, sustainability must be embedded in the institution’s or organisation’s day-to-day decisions and processes. This paper acknowledges the need to explore organisational culture and sustainability in more general terms and across a more diverse range of contexts, but owing to space restrictions and in a desire to focus and to be concise, the focus is drawn to a particular selected group of higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa. HEIs are generally managed according to a mission statement and objectives that are shared commonly in order to build and sustain the organisational culture of these institutions so that they remain relevant and focused. Indeed, it could be claimed that organisational culture is the channel through which the vision of the institution flows or is impeded since a vision is undergirded by the differing values, norms and beliefs of various social groups which are intrinsic to HEIs. Organisational culture in South Africa has been influenced by the historical background of a divided society subject to apartheid laws such as the Natives Land Act (1913), the Group Areas Act (1950), the Population Registration Act (1950) and the Extension of University Education Act (1959). The latter was meant to exclude non-whites from accessing HEIs as per legislations passed by the apartheid regime. In light of this context, this paper examines organisational culture and sustainability in certain (selected) South African HEIs, and analyses elements embedded in organisational culture, which make it difficult for those HEIs to transform according to the expectations of government and society in recent times. The ways in which higher education institutions practise their organisational culture and how they tackle sustainability as part of their transformation remain significant in governance and the development of the HEIs in South Africa. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25a115c1cdbf4a3fa78e20b5df592de52022-12-21T22:10:08ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Social Sciences2331-18862019-01-015110.1080/23311886.2019.16386351638635Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutionsShadrack Themba Mzangwa0University of South AfricaThe practice of organisational culture plays a major role in enhancing organisational and sustainable growth through innovative leadership and a sound sense of community. In order to create the right culture, sustainability must be embedded in the institution’s or organisation’s day-to-day decisions and processes. This paper acknowledges the need to explore organisational culture and sustainability in more general terms and across a more diverse range of contexts, but owing to space restrictions and in a desire to focus and to be concise, the focus is drawn to a particular selected group of higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa. HEIs are generally managed according to a mission statement and objectives that are shared commonly in order to build and sustain the organisational culture of these institutions so that they remain relevant and focused. Indeed, it could be claimed that organisational culture is the channel through which the vision of the institution flows or is impeded since a vision is undergirded by the differing values, norms and beliefs of various social groups which are intrinsic to HEIs. Organisational culture in South Africa has been influenced by the historical background of a divided society subject to apartheid laws such as the Natives Land Act (1913), the Group Areas Act (1950), the Population Registration Act (1950) and the Extension of University Education Act (1959). The latter was meant to exclude non-whites from accessing HEIs as per legislations passed by the apartheid regime. In light of this context, this paper examines organisational culture and sustainability in certain (selected) South African HEIs, and analyses elements embedded in organisational culture, which make it difficult for those HEIs to transform according to the expectations of government and society in recent times. The ways in which higher education institutions practise their organisational culture and how they tackle sustainability as part of their transformation remain significant in governance and the development of the HEIs in South Africa.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2019.1638635higher education institutionstransformationorganisational culturesustainabilitygovernance |
| spellingShingle | Shadrack Themba Mzangwa Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions Cogent Social Sciences higher education institutions transformation organisational culture sustainability governance |
| title | Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions |
| title_full | Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions |
| title_fullStr | Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions |
| title_short | Transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the South African higher education institutions |
| title_sort | transformation as part of evolving organisational culture in the south african higher education institutions |
| topic | higher education institutions transformation organisational culture sustainability governance |
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