It has been confirmed that organizational culture has a significant impact on facilitating\ncontinuous improvement, although it is not clear yet how this impact can be achieved. On the\nother hand, nonprofit organizations struggle mainly in sustaining resources and increasing\nthe quality of the services they provide. Several recent studies have confirmed the crucial\nrole of organizational culture in implementing operational management approaches.\nHowever, answering the question of â??howâ? is still awaiting a clear road map. Nonetheless,\nnonprofit organizations contribute remarkably to economies and civilisation. They deserve\nresearch attention, and studies done on continuous improvement suggest it to be holistically\nbeneficial. Hence, this paper shows an empirical investigation that selected Saudi nonprofit\norganizations for their social setting to explore the influence of organizational culture on\nfacilitating continuous improvement. The approach of grounded theory has been employed,\nusing qualitative data, to construct a reality based on participant perspectives. The thirty-one\ninterviews that were conducted at thirteen organizations revealed many lower level cultural\naspects. These aspects were evolved, during five focus groups, into six higher-level themes.\nThe findings can be used by leaders to create desired change.
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