Research On The Diagnosis Of Public Libraries’ Organizational Culture In China

Recently, China begins to intensify the construction of public cultural service system. The development of public libraries has attracted much attention, and has got strong support in terms of personnel, funding and policy. In2011, government launched the free opening policy of public libraries, museums and cultural centers. This policy accelerates the public library’s socialization process, and presents challenges to the management of public libraries. Traditional management methods, such as experience management and scientific management, have turned to be less valid. In this case, culture management as a soft management method turns to be more suitable for the management of public libraries in the future.Some public libraries try to carry out organizational culture construction, but there’s a lack of unified standards and a scientific theoretical system. Generally speaking, the construction of organizational culture has to go through the process of diagnosis, design, implementation, etc. And the diagnosis is the starting point. This study takes the organizational culture diagnosis as a hitting-point to provide theoretical guidance for the construction of public library’s organizational culture. On the basis of literature research, this study constructs the theory frame of organizational culture diagnosis for public libraries. Through expert interviews, librarain interviews, expert survey and case study, this study constructs a diagnostic model with high practicability and feasibility, and provides strategies for this model’s application.The main conclusions of this study are as follows:First, on the basic theory evidences of public library’s organizational culture diagnosis model:This study put forward on the theoretical basis of public library’s organizational culture diagnosis model, and defines the concept, content and type of public library’s organizational culture diagnosis, proposes its principles and significance, and defines the diagnosis subject, process and content.Second, on the diagnostic model of public library’s organizational culture: Based on the theoretical research, utilizing expert interviews, librarain interviews and expert survey, this study constructs a integrated diagnostic model covering diagnosis subject, content and process. Through the implementation of organizational culture diagnosis in Shandong Province Library, this study verifies the applicability and feasibility of this model. Furthermore, considering the deficiencies of insufficient capacity occurred during the application process, this study provides three auxiliary diagnostic checklist, namely data collection design matrix, diagnosis progress control table and diagnostic content item selection table.Third, on the application strategy:this research proposes two mechanisms of public library organization culture, one is the librarian individual internalization mechanism, the second is the librarian individual-culture fit mechanism. And puts forward the countermeasures for the two operating mechanism. In addition, this study proposes the implementation strategies for public library’s organizational culture diagnosis model which can be used to guide the public library’s organizational culture practice.Through theoretical analysis and empirical research, under the context of public libraries in our country, this study dedicates in the research of public library’s organizational culture diagnosis theories, models and countermeasures, trying to achieve the following innovations:First, A basic theoretical system framework for public library’s organizational culture diagnosis has been constructed. Previous studies attached less attention on theoretical level of organizational culture diagnosis, but the theory system is the basis for the public library’s organizational culture diagnosis, this study achieves some useful explorations on the basic theory level.Second, A theoretical model for Chinese public library’s organizational culture diagnosis has been constructed. This study constructs an integrated model for public libraries to accomplish organizational culture diagnosis, including diagnosis subject, content and process, and validates and modifies the model through case studies. This model can be used as a tool by public libraries to accomplish the organizational culture diagnosis, and it is a useful theoretical framework.Third, This study proposes the implementation strategies for public library’s organizational culture diagnosis model which can be used to guide the public library’s organizational culture practice.