Factors of Organizational Culture Change

This article examines various factors that affect organizational culture. It considers the macro-environment, the micro-environment, and leadership as influential factors in organizational culture. A company's founder(s) and its leadership are the biggest influencers on culture in their responses to external events. Furthermore, the organization's development stage also affects the organizational culture's change mechanisms.

Conclusions

After the comparative analysis of organizational culture in 2006 and organizational culture in 2008 was carried out the conclusion that in the research period the organizational culture changes were taking place can be made.

The research has shown that the aspects of the organizational culture change are internal organizational changes. In furniture manufacturing company organizational culture was managed by making use of two main methods: instillation of technology (accounting system Navision that is used in production instillation) and incorporation of the persons from outside into the organization (new CEO; new CEO has changed the organizational structure, division managers and cut the number of employees in the management system).

Taking into consideration the results of the research the type of organizational culture of furniture manufacturing companies in 2006, according K. S. Cameron and R. E. Quinn typology, can be described as "hierarchy" type, and the organizational culture of 2008 as the movement towards "adhocracy" type.

Organizational culture management matrix was introduced to create a strong organizational culture of "adhocracy" type in the company and in this way to make the company's work more efficient. The matrix can be adapted to the management of organizational culture of those organizations that perform similar studies of their organizational culture. Building up the matrix attention should be paid to the characteristics of the organizational culture that are important for certain organizations at that time. In order to manage the organizational culture in other companies in the right direction, characteristics of the organizational culture must be examined and divided into four groups:

1. Strong sides of the organizational culture that the company should maintain.

2. Weak sides of the organizational culture that the company should change.

3. The existing sides of the organizational culture that at present are not very strong and that should be improved, because they have a great potential for the future.

4. The existing very weak sides of organizational culture that should be avoided and not stressed.

It is also important to establish and ensure continuous monitoring of the organizational culture in the company in order to changes over time and thereby shift the be aware of the characteristics of the management of the organizational culture and monitor their in the right direction.