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Rolul leadershipului în modelarea culturii organizaţionale
The role of leadership in shaping organizational culture

Author(s): Mihai Ovidiu Cercel
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Sociology of Culture, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: organizational culture; employee; company; model; research;

Summary/Abstract: This article constitutes a theoretical, conceptual and empirical approach of the organzations with a performance-oriented culture and the role of leadership in the modeling of organizational culture. The study discusses the influence of culture over strategy, the change of organizational culture. Also, the paper approaches the models of organizational culture assessment and identifies the characteristics of organizational culture in Romania. The actual research has several phases: determining cultural dimensions according to Hofstede’s model for Romanian and foreign employees within the chosen sample, determining cultural dimensions according Denison’s model for the chosen sample and measuring the efficiency of the process of redefining the company’s values.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 33-54
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Romanian