Galactic model, a new cultural metaphor (Case of Muhammad Rasulullah Research Tower of Shiraz University of Medical Science)

Organizational culture is one of most controversial issues in organizational theory and however, researchers attempt to precisely define culture, but in understanding the nature of this phenomenon are faced with many problems. Accordingly, this research aims to design an organizational culture model to improve understanding of this complicated and complex issue. This study is a blend research; its method is heuristic and in terms of the purpose is developmental and applied. For the purposes of this study, researchers chose pragmatism as an appropriate philosophical & paradigmatic basis. Then, the researchers examined the extensive review from available and appropriate domestic and foreign literature and extracted 60 cultural dimensions from those. Then to achieve the unity cognition along with multiplicity of this existing knowledge, the researchers relied on the features of this concept, set its dimensions in a conceptual-metaphorical model called "Galactic model". To achieve this, these dimensions have prioritized by a focus group were handled by managers of Mohammad Rasulullah Research Tower. In order to assess the content validity of the model, 20 cultural experts' opinions were used and to assess its reliability Kappa indicator was used. This model can reduce theoretical differences that exist among cultural Theoreticians.