Culture Issues and Concerns in Organizational Development, With a Case Study of Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria Employees

Abstract

Femi Isaac Lanre-Oke

Culture is characterized as the language, convictions, values, standards, practices, and even material items went start- ing with one age then onto the next. There is material culture which involves adornments, craftsmanship, building, machines, apparel, haircuts and so forth while nonmaterial culture is a gathering's perspective (convictions, qualities and suppositions) and regular examples of conduct (language, signals, and different types of communication).The study focus on culture issues and concerns in organizational development, with a case study of Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria employees. The three staff unions were examined using questionnaire approach with has two major parts. Part I deals with the attributes of the respondents. While Part II was embraced from the "Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI)" created by Cameron and Quinn in 1999. The OCAI depends on a hypothetical model titled the "Contending Values Framework". The study revealed that the management has to deal with cultural differences when managing staff and students. These study has clearly shows that, it is unavoidable to make mistake in dealing with culture and feel muddled andconfuses. The real issue is how quickly we are prepared to learn from mistakes”.

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