FACTORS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE CHANGE

Violeta Raimonda Kulvinskienė,Eleonora Seminogova Šeimienė

doi:10.15388/ekon.2009.0.1047

Violeta Raimonda Kulvinskienė, Eleonora Seminogova Šeimienė

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https://doi.org/10.15388/ekon.2009.0.1047

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Journal: Ekonomika	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2009
Citations: 5	License type: cc-by

Affiliation: Vilnius University

Abstract

Organizational culture has a significant impact on the organization members’ life and in general it helps a company to achieve positive financial results. Organizational culture is very important in achieving internal integration and implementation of the strategy of adaptation in the external environment. Therefore a lot of companies explore their organizational culture and leaders, if needed, seek consciously to form, develop and change organizational culture.The aim of the article is to analyze the theoretical attitudes towards organizational culture change, to present research results of furniture manufacturing company‘s organizational culture, to describe the aspects that had impact on the organizational culture change and the matrix of organizational culture management.The object of the research is factors that have impact on the organizational culture change.Methods of research: analysis and generalization of literature, opinion survey of organization members by means of the designed questionnaire and in-depth interview as well as comparative analysis.Results of the research show that organizational culture change during 2006–2008 can be described as the movement from the “hierarchy” type towards “adhocracy” type and the main factors that had made impact on the organizational culture change were persons from outside incorporated in the organization and the installation of new technology. The main conclusion of the article is that it is important to establish and ensure continuous monitoring of the organizational culture, to estimate factors that have impact on the organizational culture change and to establish the matrix of organizational culture management in order to manage organizational culture in the right direction.

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Organizational culture is one of the most important factors of company’s success or failure
Each company has an organizational culture, and depending on its strength, the organizational culture may have a prominent impact on the members of organization, their values and behavior
Nowadays due to the changes of micro and macro environments the formation of strong, integral, based on common values organizational culture becomes increasingly relevant to ensure the success of the whole company

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Organizational culture is one of the most important factors of company’s success or failure. Each company has an organizational culture, and depending on its strength, the organizational culture may have a prominent impact on the members of organization, their values and behavior. Making research in the organizations scientists have realized recently the important role of organizational culture in the lives of organization members and in general the contribution of organizational culture into the company’s successful performance. Nowadays due to the changes of micro and macro environments the formation of strong, integral, based on common values organizational culture becomes increasingly relevant to ensure the success of the whole company. Installation of the Navision accounting system, had an impact on the organizational culture change. As the research showed introduction of the Navision system in the company was taken quite painfully by its employees since it demanded new skills from them, as well as double accounting in the production department, which required additional time.

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