Organizational Culture of the Public Sector. A Study of Romanian Public Organizations

Résumé

The present article is an attempt at analyzing Organizational Culture from the point of view of two separate theoretical models – Denison and Hofstede. It presents the results of two research studies, the former conducted on a sample of 15 public institutions, while the latter, on 6, all of them from Transylvania. The main conclusion of the article is that, despite what expert literature theories claim, organizational culture in the Romanian public sector is not greatly influenced by endo- and exogenous variables (here we are referring to only three dimensions, namely the size of the organization, the type of activity it performs, and its demographic, economic, cultural, and ethnic environment). In other words, we do not have specific and particular organizational cultures but a common one that can be termed sectorial culture. Of course, our claims are limited by the number of organizations we included in the research sample, and merely pave the way to more comprehensive research studies.