The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether employees' understanding of their organization's strategic objectives could be used by business organizations to develop a desired type of organizational culture that will improve business performance.,Structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted on the data collected in 2018 from professionals working in the healthcare industry in the USA.,SEM revealed the positive effect of employee understanding of their organization's strategic objectives on the development of a serving culture, and the mediating effect of serving culture on the relationship between employee understanding of strategic objectives and performance.,This study emphasizes that having a well-defined mission and strategic goals may not be sufficient. Business organizations must also ensure that all employees clearly understand the meaning of such objectives. Employee understanding can become instrumental, as it could allow business organizations to develop a desired type of organizational culture that will support the implementation of the firm's strategic objectives.,The study is a valuable addition to past research. First, it advances the literature on strategy by exploring the critical role of employee understanding of their organization's strategic objectives in the context of culture and performance. Thus, it allows scholars to better explain how business organizations could more effectively utilize their process of strategic planning. In the domain of organizational culture, the paper contributes by identifying a new antecedent of serving culture. Furthermore, the paper also contributes to the literature on service management by identifying a mechanism that service organizations could use to increase their performance.

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员工对战略目标的理解重要吗？对文化和绩效的影响

商业组织还必须确保所有员工都清楚了解这些目标的含义。员工的理解可能会发挥作用，因为它可以使业务组织发展所需的组织文化类型，以支持公司战略目标的实施。该研究是对过去研究的宝贵补充。首先，它通过探索员工在文化和绩效背景下对其组织战略目标的理解的关键作用，来推进战略方面的文献研究。因此，它使学者能够更好地解释企业组织如何更有效地利用其战略计划过程。在组织文化领域，本文通过确定服务文化的新前提做出了贡献。此外，