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HUDREA Adrian FAMP
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF ROMANIAN LOCAL PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS CCASP

The second hypothesis, that said that the type of organization (purpose, tasks, structure, size, etc.)
influences organizational culture, was not confirmed either; the paradox is that in each of the five counties,
the organizational culture from the County Council, City Hall and Prefecture is similar, sometimes almost
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overlapped, all revolving around the median, and the differences are not significant at all. Even if the three
institutions are different in so many ways (goals, tasks, procedures, subordination, size, number of

employees, coverage etc.) their cultures are similar.

The analysis of all 15 institutions from the perspective of this model reveals that they are very similar. Not
only do we have 15 cultures that almost merge with each other, but all 15 are cramped, considering the

scores they got, in the same range (2.9 to 3.9), the medium value range. All cultures are balanced without
very high or very low values, without a striking feature, to define them.

We cannot find any differences in terms of the type of institution (County Council, City Hall and

Prefectures) or based on their geographical location (different counties). Romanian local public
administration seems to have a common culture; perhaps a bureaucratic culture is more specific to the
30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest At a more in depth analysis, we find that the Prefecture of Covasna County stands out a bit more from
entire system rather than a specific institution or a particular region of the country.

the rest of organizations testing the higher values at 9 from the 12 dimensions described in the
questionnaire while the City Hall from Satu Mare and the Prefecture of Cluj are at the opposite side of the

range with a higher number of small scoring.

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