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.

Results of the research of organizational culture change

Tolerance of conflicts

In examining whether conflicts in the company are considered to be dangerous, unwelcome events and are hidden, or on the contrary - conflicts take place, are discussed and solved, it can be concluded that conflicts are perceived as unavoidable, but not an undesirable phenomenon. Therefore, conflicts are less hidden (the number of employees who think that conflict is undesirable and should be hidden in the research period decreased by 16.2%), but they are not discussed and solved (only 20.8% of respondents think that conflicts are immediately solved); generally conflicts are simply ignored - leaders simply disregard conflicts, therefore no less than the half of the employees failed to know how the company handles the cases of conflict 28.3% of employees think that conflicts are solved and satisfactory solution for both parts is reached. During in-depth interviews employees said that in the case of a conflict nobody really listens to all sides, and a decision may be taken without finding out all details and the real state of affairs.