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Abstract
Background and Objectives
Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization as a leading and thriving organization with a scientific look at the organization's culture should enable managers to decrease the gap between the status quo and the desirable situation through identifying the employees' perceptions and expectations, prioritizing the issues, and comparing the working groups.
 
Materials and Methods
This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in blood centers of three provinces of Khorasan in 2015; to gather information, a 60-question questionnaire and a census sampling method were used. Further, to analyze the data, descriptive (frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation) and inferential (independent T-test, Anova, Tukey, Pearson coefficient) statistics were used based on demographic variables using SPSS and Excel softwares.
 
Results
After gathering the information of community including 78 women and 146 men, it was found that the blood centers of  the three provinces of Khorasan had a moderate and strong organizational culture with a score of 198.93.  In addition, the mission had the highest impact among different dimensions of organizational culture with the score of 50.31. However, it needs to be improved in “customer orientation” and “capacity development” indices.
 
Conclusions 
Studies show that the staff are well acquainted with the vision and strategic intentions. Hence, more trust and value should be given to the group and teamwork. In addition, with regard to the customer orientation index score, the ability of employees should be increased through holding retraining courses. And the decision makers should create an atmosphere for staff motivation, customer appreciation, and capacity development.
 

 

Abstract
Background and Objectives
Developing a vision without understanding the organizational culture is a failed attempt. The purpose of this research is to understand organizational ­culture for understanding expectations in order to prioritize issues and compare work groups by managers for greater productivity.

Materials and Methods
This study was carried out in Iranian ­Blood­­ Transfusion Organization between 2020 and 2022. The statistical population for this research was the employees of the central headquarters and the general administrations of blood centers, and 384 of them were included in the study using stratified random sampling. To collect the required data, a 60-question organizational culture questionnaire based on Denison's model was used. For data analysis, descriptive statistics (frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation) and inferential (independent t, analysis of variance, Tukey and Pearson's coefficient) according to demographic variables, SPSS22 and Excel­ 2013 software were used.

Results
The findings show that Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization has a medium/strong organizational culture with a score of 179.31 and the highest impact after mission with a score of 46.60. Also, the indicators of "customer orientation and development of capabilities" need to be improved.

Conclusions 
According to the findings, most employees have understood the vision, strategic intentions and mission of the organization, but their capabilities are not well seen. According to the score of customer orientation, the skills and abilities of the employees should be developed by using retraining courses, while motivating the personnel, respecting the clients, and the provinces should take advantage of the experiences.