Perceptions Regarding the Organizational Culture between Leading and Professional Workers in Slovene Enterprises

Abstract

Organizational culture represents an ideology of the organization as well as the forms of its manifestation. The ideology of the organization includes beliefs, values and norms. It is manifested through symbols, language, narration and other activities. The aim of this study was to establish differences between managers and professional workers in their perceptions regarding the organizational culture. In this study 180 employees working in Slovene enterprises of random choice participated. Data were collected using the questionnaire for establishing perceptions regarding the organizational culture by Velko Rus and his co-workers. The questionnaire includes perceptions regarding the problems of leadership, decision-making and conflicts within the enterprise. The results of the study have shown that managers and professional workers employed in Slovene enterprises have an approximately equal perception regarding the organizational culture. Therefore we identified statistically significant differences between managers and professional workers in only four out of twenty-one variables (management, remuneration for work, development and business premises and building).