A middle manager plays various roles as a strategist who takes part in making the strategic decision.
The role of the middle manager on making a decision has been studied, which was long recognized that the only top manager can do.
Most of the studies...
A middle manager plays various roles as a strategist who takes part in making the strategic decision.
The role of the middle manager on making a decision has been studied, which was long recognized that the only top manager can do.
Most of the studies about the middle manager are just focusing on the general role.
However, there are few studies about the middle manager who has the core top value.
That is why it is urgent to study the middle manager's strategy involvement as they are making the strategic decision in their organization.
The variables of organization culture and the strategic types were considered when I researched the role of the middle manager's involvement.
The organization culture means the creation and management of a basic regulation, a symbol, a hero or a myth etc., which are leading the organizers' behavior.
Therefore, I assumed the organization culture has greatly affected in strategic involvement of middle manager.
The middle manager would control its statement of strategy involvement according to the strategy of their organization.
Therefore, management type is also affecting to the strategy involvement as an independent variable. Moreover, strategic types could be the controller when organization culture is affecting the strategic involvement.
I have made a survey with a questionnaire on middle managers working for the organization throughout the South Kyeongsang province.
The research data was verified reliability level using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, and used CPA for the validity.
ANOVA was conducted to get the average difference among the group.
Factor Analysis, Corelation Analysis and T-test were also conducted to verify the hypothesis which is base on the research data.
The result of the research is following.
First of all, it is shown that the organization culture has a significant influence on the strategy involvement of middle manager. To be concrete, not only the affiliation culture but also the other types of culture have a significant influence on the championing alternatives of middle manager.
Rationality culture has the greatest influence on synthesizing information, and other types of culture have also some great influence.
All types of culture have an influence on the implementing deliberate strategy.
The influence of the organization culture on facilitating adaptability is slightly different, but almost the same.
Secondly, Between championing alternatives and facilitating adaptability which are depending on the strategy types do not show any difference, but it shows a significant difference between synthesizing information and implementing deliberate strategy.
When it comes to synthesizing information, analyzers show the highest figure, but defenders show the lowest figure.
When it comes to implementing deliberate strategy has the same result.
Thirdly, organization culture has a great influence on Championing alternatives of middle manager, and it also says that the strategic types can be the controller.
When it comes to synthesizing information, implementing deliberate strategy and facilitating adaptability, the strategic type can be the controller as well.
This research is worthwhile that we became clear that the organizational culture and the strategic type have an influence on the role of the middle manager's strategy involvement.
After this, situation theory which places the independent variable on the individual or the comparative method for industry is expected. In addition, a lot of other ways should be needed for collecting valuable data.