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HUDREA Adrian FAMP
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF ROMANIAN LOCAL PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS CCASP

Besides involvement, the development of a system of shared values, certainties, and symbols is highly
important for any organization. Denison gathered these aspects under the umbrella of Consistency (2)
(Denison, 1990, pp. 8-11) and emphasized the importance of a strong culture in reaching effectiveness.
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A system of beliefs, values, and symbols, which was accepted by all the members of the organization,
has a positive impact on their ability to reach consensus.

The first two cultural traits of Denison’s model are all about the organizations’ internal environment; the

author believed that effective organizations seemed to combine the two principles – that of involvement
and that of consistency. Involvement was used to generate ideas and solutions, which were then

transposed into a more specific set of principles, accepted by all organization members. Measuring these
two concepts should allow an overview of the degree of their internal integration.

Adaptability (3) is necessary to any organization if effectiveness is to be reached; if the aspect of

adaptability is not considered, we are dealing with a rigid, bureaucratic system, based on values and
beliefs that are stability-oriented.
30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest The last component of Denison’s model is Mission (4). First of all, the Mission of an organization offers

it meaning and purpose – implicitly, a purpose other than financial wellbeing, in order to understand the
importance of work in an organization. In other words, it defines the social role of the organization.
However, the role of the Mission is to also define the values on which the bureaucratic system relies, and

that lead the actions of individuals towards reaching the organization’s purpose, through the
accomplishment of its objectives.

Adaptability and Mission (Denison, 1990, pp. 11-15) are dimensions that emphasize the organizations’

capacity to adapt to their external environment.

4. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY

The goal of this paper is to analyze organizational culture (based on Denison's model) of the local public
administration from Romania, focusing especially in three types of institutions: the County Council, City
Hall and Prefectures. All three types of public institutions belong to the local administration (there are

other types of institutions that are a part of the public administration system, but I chose only these three
types because they are the most important ones), these three types of institutions are very different one
form the other, both in features and form and size, and also in aspects regarding their subordination, the

legislation they must obey, the are they service, and their target audience, etc.

The research is a quantitative one and aims to find out whether there are significant differences in
organizational culture based on (1) Type of organization – Do different organization from the same county

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