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    Organizational culture and performance in South Africa BASF Chemetall Pty Ltd
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2024) Phuluwa, Fhatuwani; Sieff, Grant
    The purpose of this study was to look into the relationship between organisational cultures andperformance within the South African operations of the BASF division BASF Chemetall. The goal ofthe study and the manner in which the data was gathered make it both qualitative and quantitative. AllSouth African employees of BASF Chemetall made up the study's statistical population. Employeeswere requested to respond to survey questions for this reason. One instrument for gathering data is thequestionnaire. The Gomez questionnaire et al. (2005) was employed to assess the correlation betweenorganisational performance and culture. The Yang (2004) et al. questionnaire is used to assessorganisational performance and culture. To determine the validity of data collection, the questionnairewas presented to 112 employees including managers of various departments. The validity ofquestionnaire was nearly 100%. The reliability of the questionnaire was conducted on organizationalculture and organizational performance, respectively. The results showed that there is a positiverelationship between organizational culture and organizational performance
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    A theory of virtual culture formation
    (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2021) Chitondo, Margaret Zvobgo; Carmichael, Terri
    This research focused on the formation of organisational culture in virtual work teams that exist within the context of a virtual organisation. The concept of organisational culture has been studied since the late 1970s in traditional work contexts. Several studies have subsequently been carried out on the factors influencing and the processes involved in the formation of culture within the context of traditional brick and mortar workplaces. This study focused on the formation of culture in virtual organisations, which have become commonplace in the 21st century and whose key characteristics are technological enablement as well as geographic and spatial distribution. A sensitising literature review was presented to locate the study within the current discourse of organisational culture, process theory and virtual work teams within virtual organisations. A constructivist grounded theory study was carried out to investigate the phenomenon of culture formation in virtual organisations using respondents who were at the time working as part of a virtual team within a virtual organisation. Data from 18 interviewed participants and five sets of archival records were collected and analysed theoretically. The results of the study were integrated with extant literature to find that organisational culture within virtual contexts developed through managing the core theme of virtuality and by dealing with virtuality while maintaining organisational effectiveness and managing interpersonal relationships. The findings from this research are expected to inform stakeholders so that they may better anticipate, facilitate and r respond to organisational culture development within a virtual organisation context.