Identification Of Organizational Culture In The Public And Private Environment. A Quality Survey

In this article, the author aims to identify the organizational patterns in existence in public and private organizations. This Quality Survey relies on the Harrison Questionnaire, a now-classical tool in organizational culture diagnosis. The intended purpose of this research is to identify the resemblances as well as the differences in the way the employees in the two organizational environments perceive organizational culture. Being a fundamental element in the modern organization, culture is, first and foremost, about people, about the values, attitudes and behaviours of the people as individual psychological entities as well as social actors participating, day after day, in the construction of everyday life. From this perspective, organizational culture within a specific national area should not feature major differences from one organization to another insofar as the employed personnel (execution staff and management staff) have the same nationality and belong, implicitly, to the same collective thinking. The author took this reality into account and did not introduce in the research samples those respondents who work in multicultural organizational environments. On the other hand, in time, organizational reality itself influences, indirectly, as well, the employees’ personalities. As a result, this survey is expected to outline these differences insofar as the organizational environments in the public and private sectors are, indeed, distinct.