Organizational Culture and Socio-cultural Values: Perceptions of Managers and Employees in Five Economies in Transition

ABSTRACT This survey‐based study compared socio‐cultural values and perceptions of organizational culture characteristics held by more than 3,300 managers and employees in twelve business organizations in Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Significant differences were fou...

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Published inPerformance improvement quarterly Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 5 - 27
Main Authors Cseh, Maria, Ardichvili, Alexandre, Gasparishvili, Alexander, Krisztián, Béla, Nemeskeri, Zsolt
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2004
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
International Society for Performance Improvement
Subjects
Administrator Attitudes
Alphabets
Business
Communism
Corporate culture
Cross Cultural Studies
Cultural anthropology
Cultural Differences
Cultural values
Employee Attitudes
Employees
Foreign Countries
Gender Differences
Georgia
Hungarian
Hungary
Ideology
Joint ventures
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Latin
Managers
Market economies
Organizational behavior
Organizational Culture
Orthographic Symbols
Perceptions
Privatization
Resource Allocation
Russia
Sociocultural Patterns
Values
Georgia
Hungary
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Russia
Georgia (country)
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Summary:ABSTRACT This survey‐based study compared socio‐cultural values and perceptions of organizational culture characteristics held by more than 3,300 managers and employees in twelve business organizations in Hungary, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Significant differences were found between the five countries on all socio‐cultural and organizational culture dimensions. The relationship between socio‐cultural values and the organizational culture perceptions was only moderately significant. The paper concludes with implications for professionals seeking to enhance organizations' performance in these countries and suggestions for further research.
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cseh@oakland.edu
Senior Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management, Institute of Adult Education and Human Resources Development at University of Pécs, Hungary.
Associate Professor of HRD, University of Illinois, USA. Alexandre has 20 years of experience in management and human resource education and development. He has published more than 30 peer‐reviewed articles and book chapters in HRD, leadership, and entrepreneurship areas.
Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Public Opinion Research Laboratory at Moscow State University, Russia.
Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management and Vice‐director of the Institute of Adult Education and Human Resources Development at University of Pécs, Hungary.
Assistant Professor of HRD, Oakland University, USA. Maria has 20 years of experience in engineering, management and human resource development. Her research focus is on global issues in human resource development including managerial learning, organizational development and change and learning processes in organizations.
ISSN:0898-5952
1937-8327
DOI:10.1111/j.1937-8327.2004.tb00305.x