Organizational Culture in Banking Industry Research Proposal

Title

Investigating the impact of organizational culture on employees’ ability to cope in the global market and multinational employers in the banking industry.

Abstract

Through this research, I intend to establish the impact of different organizational cultures on employees and how these cultures influence employees’ capacity to adapt to the global markets and multinational employers in general. The research will be conducted in reference to the banking industry mainly through the use of secondary data. Pre-established research questions will be used to exhaustively enable answer the key research question. The research area is the entire global multinational banking sector.

Research Context

Organizational culture is a rock on which a business’s survival is founded. It allows the business access to not only a market but also a valuable asset of talent and skills; employees (Williams & Glisson, 2014). While organizational culture is mainly reflective to the outside, the internal leadership of a firm determines its nature and implements it through business operations. The current global banking sector is significantly made of many reputable firms with varying origins such that various cultures found in the sector are basically from different geographic regions. For instance, among the multinational banks in the market today include Barclays bank and HSBC both of the United Kingdom origin, JP Morgan Chase & Co. Bank of an American origin and ICBC of the Chinese origin among others. Competition of multinational banks in the market is in a big way driven by their cultures which mould a public image of the firms attracting both a market share and a quality employee base (O’Reilly, 1991). On the global platform, multinational banks are affected by a variety of cultures from different regions of operations and hence have to come up with an appropriate organizational culture (Ch et al, 2013); (John, 2011).

Research Questions

What key organizational cultures exist in the multinational banking sector?

What factors comprise organizational culture in the multinational banking sector?

How do these cultures impact on multinational employees?

Research Methods

For this research, I intend to use secondary data in obtaining information and drawing relevant conclusions. Among the data sources to be used will include journal articles such as human resource journals, research reports, specific company reports in relation to organizational culture and human resources, regulatory body reports such as the international banking regulators among other bodies.

By using the secondary data, I intend to carry out an in-depth analysis of the multinational banking sector, the various organizational cultures that exist in the sector and how these influence employees and their ability to get along in the international platform.

Significance of Research

The importance of this research is to establish the various organizational cultures of multinational firms existing in the banking sector, the influence these cultures have on multinational employees and their capacity to survive in the global market as well as get along with multinational employers. This research will therefore be of use to any other scholars pursuing courses related to organizational cultures and human resources on the global platform. It could also be used by markets’ analysts and other professionals interested in related analysis.

Bibliography

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Jaeger, A.M., 1983. The transfer of organizational culture overseas: An approach to control in the multinational corporation. Journal of International Business Studies, pp.91-114.

John, R. Childress. (2011). Why Banks Should Focus on Culture Now More Than Ever. Available: http://www.theprincipiagroup.com/downloads/Why-Banks-Should-Focus-On-Culture-v2.pdf. Last accessed 18th April 2016.

O’Reilly, C.A., Chatman, J. and Caldwell, D.F., 1991. People and organizational culture: A profile comparison approach to assessing person-organization fit. Academy of management journal, 34(3), pp.487-516.

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