Startups, organizational culture and engagement

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Carla Marina Gonçalves da
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26559
• topic: Startups; Organization culture; Competing value framework; Motivation; Self–determination theory; Engagement; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

The purpose of this study was to explore the organizational culture of a startup and investigate whether this culture can contribute to improving employee´s engagement level. This paper is an exploratory study, conduted in an organizational context. The organization is a Portuguese Technological startup in the fashion industry, founded in 2015 by four university students. It was expected that Adhocracy Culture, most commonly found in startups environment, facilitate the internalization and integration of externally regulated motivation, consequently, promoting a work place with higher levels of engagement. Employees were asked to complete an online questionnaire which included the Competing Value Framework Scale, Motivation at Work Scale and UWES Scale. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the date using SPSS. The findings of the research concluded that the organizational culture influenced the type and quality of motivation which consequently influenced engagement. Clan and Adhocracy cultures were positively associated with intrinsic and identified motivations. Theses types of motivations lead to higher engagment levels. The main limitation in this paper was thesmall number of participantes and a quantitative data method.