Models of Institutional Culture and Governance: A Literature Review

Abstract

In every organization, human beings continually interact with each other and with their environment in order to understand such environment through interpretations. Common language, understandings and history are developed leading to diversity of cultures. Culture therefore is very important in the lives of men and organizations. Human beings are born into culture, live and grow in it and eventually die in culture. No human being can outlive culture because its shapes the course of our lives, affects what people do and think. Through interactions create social reality. Culture therefore shows the processes through which an institution bridges tension between rationally and sense making. This article examines existing governance models which had become institutional culture in various higher education institutions. There review focuses on five models of governance comprising, collegial, bureaucratic, political organized anarchy, and entrepreneurial.