Organizational Culture Perspective Ethnological Approach Reflected in the Work of Dimitrie Cantemir

• Author: Manoela Popescu - Luminita Cecilia Crenicean
• Position: PhD. Professor, 'Dimitrie Cantemir' Christian University, Bucharest - Assistant Professor PhD Student, 'Dimitrie Cantemir' Christian University, Bucharest
• Pages: 672-676

European Integration - Realities and Perspectives 2012

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Organizational Culture Perspective Ethnological

Approach Reflected in the Work of Dimitrie Cantemir

Manoela Popescu

1

, Luminia Cecilia Crenicean

2

Abstract. Culture is the f oundation to explain nearly all phenomena and processes occurring within

organizations, as well as performance differences between organizations. Similar national culture,

organizational culture is at the same time, the premise and starting point for changing the organization's

performance. In an uncertain environment, marked by profound structural and pr ocedural changes required an

organizational culture and historical research in order to identify component elements relatively easy to

change. In this regard, an analysis of organizational culture i n ethnological perspective permit to identify its

components and accumulated cultural elements reflected in the work of Dimitrie Cantemir. It explains, f or

example, positive behavior of organizations with foreign partners (hospitality), and certain organizational

values: tolerance, intelligence, spirit of oratory, humor, corruption, works jumps, etc.

Keywords: culture, national culture, organizational culture, ethnology, cultural anthropology

JEL Classification: M14; J13; M31

1. Introduction

Research has shown that employees and managers bring their ethnicity in the workplace. Cultural

identity is an attribute relevant to different levels of organization of ethnic communities. Thus,

national culture explained more differences than they showed in one place: age, profession and gender.

In fact, experts agree that not only did diminish and cancel national differences, but rather than that

organization's culture keep and increases them.

Also, national culture is built on an ethnic foundation which ensures its specificity, but did not provide

it directly. Ethnicity is the interior structure of culture; history is accumulated in specific traditions and

attitudes towards the world system, language and its literary monuments, stylistic matrix, etc. It should

be noted that the explanations given by historians, national culture aimed to be established by

psychological mechanisms. National culture field consists of language, law and ethics, literature and

traditions, arts. Moreover, national consciousness is a complex soul, a synthesis of several elements

among which may be mentioned: physical-geographical factors, racial, intellectual, emotional, of will,

language, religion, ancestral, social, historical and economic, etc.

In this context, one can consider the possibility of analyzing the organizational culture from the

perspective of cultural anthropology. In this respect, is taking in account the strategy of historical

research of organizations culture, which involves studying the genesis and evolution of the phenomena

of organizational culture and its manifestations, as well as in historical and individual behaviors. The

subject matter of organizational culture is given by its components. Organizational culture in

ethnological research perspective is possible because of information contained in Cantemir's work.

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PhD. Professor, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest, 176 Splaiul Unirii Street, 4

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District, Romania, fax

+40213307900, Corresponding author: manoela.popescu@yahoo.com.

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Assistant Professor PhD Student, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest, 176 Splaiul Unirii Street, 4

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District, Romania, fax no 0213307900, lumi_cecilia@yahoo.com.