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PROFIROIU Alina-Georgiana and HURDUBEI (IONESCU) Roxana Elisabeta FAMP
A REVIEW OF ORGANISATION CULTURE ASSESSING INSTRUMENTS CCASP

1. INTRODUCTION

More and more companies across the word consider the organisation culture vital for the performance of
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their employees and ultimately for their business success.

“The contemporary definition of Organizational Culture includes what is valued; the leadership style, the
language and symbols, the procedures and routines, and the definitions of success that characterizes an
organization. So, organizational culture is a specific collection of values and norms that are shared by

people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with
stakeholders outside the organization” (Markovic, 2008).

More and more companies in the recent years have a well-defined business strategy and consider vital
for their success to align the organisation culture to the company strategy. Many business leaders have

been focusing on creating and fostering an organisation culture that will encourage performance and in
the same time will determine employees’ motivation and engagement.
30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest and different authors developed models used to identify, describe and assess the organisational culture.
Even though the organisational culture varies from one organisation to another, commonalities do exist

However, many authors agree that new technologies and globalisation put pressure to change on

organisations in different countries and regions. Moreover, they had a significant impact on many sectors
or industry macrocultures.

The world changed significantly in the last decade. The development of the Internet and the wide

availability of information and knowledge, the almost free instant communication mediated by email and
other electronic aids, social networking, all other advances in IT have changed the way people think and
the way companies are doing business.

Therefore, successful organisations tend to be more flexible, willing to learn and adapt quickly to new
ways of working and according to recent articles, organizational culture will probably be an even more
important factor in determining the success or failure of firms during the next decade when more

technological changes are expected.

In the age of globalisation and rapid emergence of new technologies that allow companies to have instant
access to information, the instruments available for profiling the organisational cultural have a great

variety and are easily accessible to managers and HR professionals from across the world.

The purpose of this study is to review and analyse some of standardised instruments for measuring and
profiling the organisational culture and also to understand why many companies who decide to investigate

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