The impact of societal culture setting upon the structure of bureaucracy in the United Arab Emirates : a comparative study

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This Objective of this research is to examine the relationship among the major variables of organizational structure in the social organizations in the United Arab Emirates by utilizing a theoretical causal model based on results of previous researches in Western developed societies, which is used to examine the organiztional universalism argument, which did not recognize any significant role for social culture in organizations (culture-free hypothesis).

The results of this research indicate that the structure of organizations becomes less centralized in decision making when organizations grow in size and become more differentiated.

Also, the results of the path causal model support the organizational universalism argument.

In addition, these results reveal that the organizational structure in non Western developing societies is to a great extent similar to the existing structure in the Western societies.

The results of this research show a significant difference from the Western researches, pertaining to the impact of differentiation on the structure of organization resulting from differences in societal culture context.

In this view, organizations and the culture of society tend to reflect each other structurally.

Finally, this research is concluded with a few recommendations related to the field of sociology of organization cross–national comparative researches.