Configuration Model of Organisational Culture and Creation of a Theoretically Founded Typology

First, an eclectic configuration model of organisational culture will be presented, as a response to the call for new models, which are able to explain and facilitate the exploration of the empirical complexity, which organisations are facing today. The model is providing a basis for exploring dynamic relationships between organisational culture, strategy, structure, and operations of an organisation (internal environment) and mapping of interactions with the external environment (task and legitimization environment). For application a tested questionnaire, the OCT-NPI is available.
Second, with few adaptations the eclectic configuration model can be mapped into a theoretically founded cybernetic agency model of normative personality. For an empirical base of the theoretically derived Mindset Agency Theory the Sagiv-Schwartz (2007) bi-polar value dimensions of organizational culture are a perfect fit for creating a new typology of eight extreme types of organizational culture, representing pairwise oppositional positions of combinations of bi-polar cultural traits. These eight types are finding reflection in major streams of political thought and attitudes.