OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS IN CULTURE

For the purpose of this study, we adapted the operational definitions of cited authors Viz:

(1) Belief System: This set the value of the society relative to the level of cultural development (Onuoha, 1991).

(2) Culture: An active living phenomenon through which people jointly create and recreate world in which they live (Chukwu, 2001).

(3) Cultural Assumption: This reduce uncertainly and anxiety among people in knowing how to conduct everybody activities of business (Brown, 2006).

(4) Cultural Belief: This dictates ways or how to alter the condition of materials like management style, available resources both human and non-human in the organization (Imaga, 1992).

(5) Employee: An employee is a worker or somebody engaged so that the organization’s goals and objectives are realize (Ewurum, 2001).

(6) Institution: This is a custom, system of organization that has existed for a very long time and is accepted as important part of a particular society (Desler, 1981).

(7) Norms: This can be referred to the quide lines that direct the conduct of an individual in a particular situation (Cray, 1982).  

(8) Organisation: this is said to be a deliberate association of individuals, with common objective, working co-operation under leadership and authority (Brown, 2006).

(9) Performance: This is a systematic, periodic and impartial rating of an empoyee’s excellence in matter patterning to his or her present Job (Fillipo, 1976).

(10) Strategy: Is an integrated plan through which organization accomplishes its objectives (Chukwu, 2001).

(11) Social Structure: This is the patterned and reqularized relationship among the people in the organization (Imaga, 1999).