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

the organisational culture prefer to develop their own questionnaires in order to capture aspects they

consider specific for their organisation or aspects who they consider they need to focus more on in their
effort to align the organisation culture to company strategy to support its vision, mission, values and
strategic objectives.

2. METHODOLOGY

The study was made by conducting a literature review to understand what instruments have been

previously developed and standardised for profiling and measuring the organisation culture.

3. LITERATURE REVIEW OF ORGANISATION CULTURE ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS

In trying to understand the variety of different organisation cultures that can be encountered, the
researcher can use the typologies that allow the categorisation of different organizations into types. Such
typologies have the advantage of simplifying and building higher-order theoretical categories, but they

have the disadvantage of being so abstract that they often fail to describe accurately a particular
organization (Schein, 2004). PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11 TH ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” 30 th – 31 st October 2015 Bucharest

A number of such typologies have been proposed by many authors and a number of assessment

instruments have been created to measure or decipher the content of the organisational culture from a
researcher or consultant point of view. The review of the culture assessment instruments studied how
the organisation culture is currently profiled and measured.

Balthazard and Cooke (2004) consider that “traditionally, culture has been assessed by qualitative
methods. However, quantitative approaches such as culture surveys offer important advantages for both
cross-sectional organisational research and knowledge-based cultural change initiatives” therefore the

qualitative and quantitative methods for the assessment of organisational processes and attributes are
complementary.

Yauch and Steudel (2003) in their research of organizational cultures of two manufacturers, analysed the

use of qualitative and quantitative assessment methods and identified strengths and weaknesses of both
methods.

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