Question :
How can management culture be measured? I.e., what are the parameters?
During one debate, in which I participated, there was quite a lot of controversy about the measurement of management culture. I.e., is it possible to measure management culture in levels (e.g., a very high level of management culture in the organization, high, medium, low, very low level); is it possible to measure management culture in degrees (e.g., a high degree of expression of the management of culture, etc.)?
If you’ve read any scientific publications on this topic, I would be very grateful if you could share.
Answear:
You could approach the management culture by generally analyzing human cultures in the first step and refining them more exactly in the context of management in the second step.
In the first step, you can consider the synthetic culture defined by six dimensions in Hofstede's research as 1) low vs. high power distance dimension; 2) collectivism vs. individualism dimension; 3) masculinity vs. femininity dimension; 4) uncertainty avoidance dimension; 5) short-term vs. long-term orientation. The dimensions were measured in organizations using questionnaires what would be beneficial for your work on the management.
In the second step, you can elaborate on the six dimensions more exactly, for example, on the first dimension "low vs. high distance dimension" describing the degree to which differences in power, status, privileges are considered by representatives of the culture or, in your case, by representatives of the management.
In my work I was primarily interested in globalization issues and therefore on cultures and the computer-aided evaluation of dimensions of synthetic cultures. There are also some pointers to Hofstede's research and papers on organization cultures you might be interested in.