In the age of limitless competition of which uncertainty for the future ever increases, corporations which do not produce innovative and creative values cannot but face difficult situations that threaten their survival. In other words, adaptation to c...
In the age of limitless competition of which uncertainty for the future ever increases, corporations which do not produce innovative and creative values cannot but face difficult situations that threaten their survival. In other words, adaptation to changing paradigm of management determines corporate success or failure.
We have witnessed changes from the industrialization age to the information-oriented age. In the information-oriented age, new information and communication technology have decisive influence upon human life, and the importance of intangible elements in new ideas, new human relations and new product forms is greatly highlighted (Leadbeater, 2000). Professor Baruch Lev of New York University’s Stern School of Business has proved the fact that 80% of corporate assets of large companies in the United States consists of intangible assets and only 20% of total corporate assets is listed in traditional account books. As the importance of intangible elements has come to the fore, the most reliable investment seems to improve the creativity of executives and staff members, thus enhancing their responding potentials to circumstantial changes on the whole. For this, the most important issue is creativity.
With the change of corporate assets, corporate interest has moved to the procurement and management of creative employees and creative corporate culture. On this account, corporations come to take interest in culture and art as the source of improvement of creativity. It is because culture and art play the role of a lever in cultivating employees’ creativity and providing creative corporate competitiveness.
With this trend of times in which the strategic importance of culture and art is ever highlighted, corporations must put every effort in enforcing corporate competitiveness in the global age via culture- and art-oriented cultural management.
Preceding studies on culture- and art-oriented management have been confined in understanding its external effects focusing on mecenat. On this account, this study examined the influence of corporate cultural management upon employees’ organizational commitment and creative organizational climate formation, thus finding out the internal effects of cultural management.
For this, a study plan was established via theoretical examination of literature on corporate cultural management, organizational commitment and creative organizational climate, and then a questionnaire survey of 200 executives and staff members of Samsung Group was carried out. Based on collected data, employees’ general perception of corporate cultural management was empirically examined, together with the influence of their perception upon their organizational commitment and creative organizational climate.
Study findings are as follows:
First, as for the influence of cultural social contribution activity―a component of cultural management―upon organizational commitment, examined via regression analysis, it had influence upon emotional commitment by 25%, upon continuous commitment by 30%, and upon normative commitment by 25%. Therefore, the hypothesis, “Cultural social contribution activity must have influence upon organizational commitment”, was accepted. In addition, study findings showed that cultural social contribution activity had the biggest influence upon continuous commitment, among the components of organizational commitment.
Second, as for the influence of cultural marketing activity upon organizational commitment, examined via regression analysis, it had influence upon emotional commitment by 14%, upon continuous commitment by 29%, and upon normative commitment by 11%. Therefore, the hypothesis, “Cultural marketing activity must have influence upon organizational commitment”, was accepted. In addition, study findings showed that cultural marketing activity also had the biggest influence upon continuous commitment, among the components of organizational commitment.
Third, as for the influence of CEO’s perception of culture and art upon organizational commitment, examined via regression analysis, it had influence upon emotional commitment by 16%, upon continuous commitment by 19%, and upon normative commitment by 10%. Therefore, the hypothesis, “CEO’s perception of culture and art must have influence upon organizational commitment”, was accepted. In addition, study findings showed that CEO’s perception of culture and art also had the biggest influence upon continuous commitment, among the components of organizational commitment.
Fourth, as for the influence of cultural organizational management upon organizational commitment, examined via regression analysis, it had influence upon emotional commitment by 14%, upon continuous commitment by 29%, and upon normative commitment by 11%. Therefore, the hypothesis, “Cultural organizational management must have influence upon organizational commitment”, was accepted. In addition, study findings showed that cultural organizational management also had the biggest influence upon continuous commitment, among the components of organizational commitment.
Fifth, as for the influence of cultural management upon corporate creative organizational climate, examined via regression analysis, it had 49% of influence. Therefore, the hypothesis, “Cultural management must have influence upon the formation of corporate creative organizational climate”, was accepted.
Sixth, as for the influence of organizational commitment upon the formation of corporate creative organizational climate, examined via regression analysis, it had 42% of influence. Therefore, the hypothesis, “Organizational commitment must have influence upon the formation of corporate creative organizational climate”, was accepted.
Based on the above study findings, suggestions are presented as follows:
First, it is necessary for a corporation to perceive cultural management correctly and then establish the utilization strategy of cultural management. Cultural management must be carried out not from the aspect of obligation, but from the aspect of strategy. However, it is necessary to establish and carry out strategies to induce employees’ voluntary participation and then publicize it, from the aspect of internal marketing.
Second, it is necessary for a corporation to take interest in cultural organizational management activity, in order to induce emotional commitment with which one can feel organizational affections and prides.
Third, it is necessary for corporate cultural management to strengthen corporate competitiveness in the global age, via a variety of culture-utilized activities in modern society in which the strategic importance of culture is highlighted. First of all, it is necessary for a corporation to carry out its cultural management not to excessively associate with profit-making, thus lowering employees’ participation and decreasing organizational reliability.
Since this study was carried out, focusing on understanding and examining the current status of cultural management, under such circumstances as preceding studies and test tools for the specialized internal effect of cultural management were insufficient, this study is different from other studies. However, study subjects were only sampled from Samsung Group and therefore the generalization of study findings has limitations. So, it seems to be necessary for following studies to extend the scope of samples.