Page 292 - Proceeding 2015

FAMP HUDREA Adrian
CCASP ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF ROMANIAN LOCAL PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

1. INTRODUCTION

Organizational culture has become one of the most important aspects of management. Organizational

culture refers to the symbolic side of the organization, the less visible part of it, the side which is more
difficult to understand, but which has a vital role in the success of the organization. Culture is for the

organization what personality is for an individual: it defines it yet it is hidden, hard to understand, defined
by the experiences the organization went through since its birth, hard to change and has a key role in
achieving the organization’s objectives.

Large private companies (multinational corporations), to which we turn whenever we seek performance
benchmarks, in their constant pursuit of profit and hence performance and efficiency, began to value the
human resource so much and the role that the organizational culture can play in the success of the

organization that, when recruiting, they put more emphasis on the compatibility between the individual
and the organization's values than they do on the education, experience or skills that that individual has.

Often, these organizations prefer to recruit (especially for entry level positions) young people, just out of

university or even students, individuals in training without a value system yet fully formed, immature,
without their personality traits fully contoured. The dream of any organization of this kind is to have a place PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11 TH ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” 30 th – 31 st October 2015 Bucharest
in which employees share the values of the organization and even identify with them (and the organization

itself), where employees talk about the organization in terms of "we", not "them", in which individuals
understand the organization's objectives and the role each of them plays in achieving these objectives,
an organization in which these individuals see the connection between the work of each of them and the

results achieved and personal satisfaction.

Nowadays this aspect of organizations came to be so important to the success of the organization that
large companies make considerable efforts (including financial efforts) to build and maintain a culture that

supports performance: from how they recruit and select human resources (they create a psychological
profile, they check the compatibility between the individual and the organization's values, etc.), to how

they organize the work environment, and interact with their employees, to how that involve them in
decision making , and even go as far as to offer them facilities that allow them to develop within the
company and allow them to engage in charitable activities or develop their own projects to implement

their own ideas.

2. LITERATURE REVIEW

As in many other areas, the concern for organizational culture first emerged and developed better in the

private sector because they always seek ways to increase their profits, thus becoming more effective,

290