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http://dx.doi.org/10.15813/kmr.2021.22.1.005

Exploring Changes in Organizational Culture after Firm-Wide Institutionalization of Smart Work: Case of a Service Company 'H'  

Jang, Minje (Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University)
Nam, Eunwoo (Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University)
Lee, Jungwoo (Graduate School of Information, Yonsei University)
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Knowledge Management Research / v.22, no.1, 2021 , pp. 85-103 More about this Journal
Abstract
While there is a rapid transition to smart work due to COVID-19, not many studies have measured the changes in organizational culture after firm-wide institutionalization of smart work. Through a questionnaire and a series of stakeholder interviews, this study examined how and to what extent employees' perception of organizational culture changed after the introduction of smart work in a large leisure service company H in South Korea. The working culture of the organization is measured as the changes in the organizational members' perception on seven dimensions: strategic innovativeness, organizational flexibility, fair human resource management, rational decision making processes, organizational vitality, trustful collaboration, proactive leadership. The results demonstrated that, after the introduction of smart work, the organizational members' perception on strategic innovativeness, organizational flexibility, organizational vitality, trustful collaboration have declined significantly while the changes in fair human resource management, rational decision making processes, and proactive leadership are insignificant. Though found to be insignificant, follow up interviews revealed that participants think that the role of management leadership is very critical for the smart work systems to be institutionalized successfully. While the smart work may have different effects depending upon industry or organizational characteristics, this study present a case for changes in organizational culture after institutionalizing smart work. Implications are discussed with further research issues at the end.
Keywords
Knowledge Management; Smart Work; Telework; Service Enterprise; Organizational Culture; Strategic Innovativeness; Organizational Flexibility; Fair Human Resource Management; Rational Decision Making Process; Organizational Vitality; Trustful Collaboration; Proactive Leadership;
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