Evaluating culture metrics as predictors of corporate performance Evaluating culture metrics as predictors of corporate performance Μεταπτυχιακή Διατριβή Master Thesis 2023-07-252023enA culture comprises a number of features that include “a pattern of basic assumptions” that the group members adopt in order to cope with the internal and external organizational challenges. The “Organizational Culture”, also noted as “Corporate Culture”, has been extensively researched in the modern literature, in order to examine a wide range of aspects, like teaming behaviors, accountability, ownership, leadership, and the emerging habits, beliefs, and norms cultivated by group dynamics. In today’s world all of these traits eventually come into shaping a distinct, autonomous, legally recognized entity "born out of statute", the corporation which is manifested as a group of people, processes and tools aligned under a common expression of vision and strategy. From a utilitarian standpoint of view, such an organized expression needs to be measured and controlled by practices that can increase both the employee’s sentiment and the financial performance of the group (i.e., the corporation). The establishment of such processes can be primarily facilitated through the institutionalization of the main areas of contribution. When considering the combination of financial and non-financial identifiers in order to drive definitive statements about corporate performance, it seems that employees are especially affected by their business leaders, the expectations around career opportunities, the actual compensation and various perks and benefits. The hypothesis for undertaking the current work lays on the anticipation for the immersion of interesting results when considering metrics like the employee “happiness” and/or “leader appreciation” to satisfactorily predict a company’s future performance.Μεταπτυχιακή εργασία που υποβλήθηκε στη Σχολή Μηχανικών Παραγωγής και Διοίκησης (συμπεριλαμβανομένων κοινών μαθημάτων με τη Σχολή Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Υπολογιστών) σε μερική εκπλήρωση των απαιτήσεων για την απόκτηση του μεταπτυχιακού τίτλου στη διαχείριση τεχνολογίας και καινοτομίας Master in Technology and Innovation Management στο Πολυτεχνείο ΚρήτηςThesis that was submitted to the School of Production Engineering and Management (including common courses with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for obtaining the postgraduate degree in technology and innovation management, Master in Technology and Innovation Management, at the Technical University of Crete.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης::Σχολή Μηχανικών Παραγωγής και ΔιοίκησηςPERES-HERNANDES-SANCHES_JULIANA_MSc_2023.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2023-07-25application/pdf2.4 MBfree Peres-Hernandes-Sanches Juliana Peres-Hernandes-Sanches Juliana Grigoroudis Evangelos Γρηγορουδης Ευαγγελος Tsafarakis Stelios Τσαφαρακης Στελιος Moustakis Vasilis Μουστακης Βασιλης Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης Technical University of Crete Corporate performance prediction Correlation analysis Data mining Culture metrics Decision support systems Master in Technology and Innovation Management MTIM