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Organizational behaviour and cultural issues in nowadays environment
Organizational behaviour and cultural issues in nowadays environment

Author(s): Gabriel Săpunaru
Subject(s): Micro-Economics, Sociology, Management and complex organizations, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Business Ethics, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Organizational behaviour; cultural issues; economic downturn; social upheavals; economic crisis;

Summary/Abstract: The current material assesses the problematic of organization’s capacity to socialize individuals within a more general concept than that of personal interest, in the context of neoliberal approach in economy and the recent financial crisis (2008). The idea of this approach took off by looking at two facets of reality: the theoretical understanding of behaviour in organizations (Mullins) and the day-to-day observation of what is today commonly desired by individuals in terms of success. The problematic, in the manner we conceive it, is layered in between these two approaches – what organizational behaviour should be and what it is or what it can be. Stressing that many of the current problems come from the inability to walk on a middle ground here, we critically analyse both organizations and individuals within their norms and objectives, reaching to contemporary cultural problems such as ‘the faceless manager’, the economic downturn, the social upheavals, youth unemployment and even the economic crisis, in general.

  • Issue Year: 13/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-6
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English