ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND CULTURE IN THE ROMANIAN MILITARY INSTITUTION
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND CULTURE IN THE ROMANIAN MILITARY INSTITUTION

Summary/Abstract: The author’s study approaches the influence of the features of the Romanian military organisational culture, which, marked by the features of the national culture, is also reflected in the military behaviour at work. Thus, in military structures, the “ Power Distance Index” is high. The increasing formalism in the relation between commanders and subordinates determines the personnel not to express any opinions that are contrary to their superiors and execute the orders received without asking any questions. Then, from the perspective of “uncertainty avoidance” in military structures, the author points out the fact that, at the behavioural level, military structures are characterised through strict rules of behaviour, which makes it possible for the anxiety resulted from ambiguity and uncertainty to be much more reduced and for greater tolerance towards the plurality of ideas to be generated. Last but not least, assessing the “masculinity/femininity” axis, the military domain is defined by competitive relations, which provides military organisations with an attribute of masculinity, not only in terms of its members belonging to a genre.

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