Exploring the relationship between openness & confrontational values to employee performance

Openness to experiments, confrontation and risk-taking are considered as the values that foster innovation and learning (Paton and McCalman, 2000). Though, the literature is full of analysis on the level of Organizational culture/values but there are hardly researches in the Indian context that relate organizational culture to employee performance. Chatman.et.al (2013) also emphasizes on the fact that though organizational researchers have debated the meaning and consequences of organizational culture but still do not fully understand the relationship between culture and organizational performance.

Thus, this research is an attempt to explore the relationship between Organizational values; like Openness & Confrontation; and Employee performance. For this purpose, scale measuring openness and confrontation values was taken from the Organizational cultural profile by Udai Pareek (1997), and was administered on a sample of 208 employees. As a measure of their performance, their last appraisal scores were obtained. The obtained data was analyzed using inferential statistical procedures. The results indicate a significant relation between the variables