The organizational culture. Students' survey

• Author: Lupsa-Tataru D.A.
• Pages: 123-128

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 9 (58) No. 1 - 2016

The organizational culture. A students’ survey

Dana Adriana LUPŞA-TTARU1

Abstract: The paper is focused on presenting the main results of a study conducted on a

sample of 300 students from a university remaining anonymous, regarding their attitudes

and opinions about the values and the image of the organizational culture of the university

that they attend. The findings show that they are quite attached to the university, even if the

distance from the power is high.

Key-words: organizational, culture, organizational behaviour

1. Introduction

Organizational culture, according to new theories, has a strong impact on

organization and management, emerging from its nature and its content. It is a

system of assumptions, values, norms, and attitudes which the members of an

organization have developed and adopted through mutual experience that the

members of an organization share and shape significantly their interpretative

schemes. Thus, they assign meanings to occurrences within and outside the

organization and understand the reality that surrounds them.

Considering these aspects, the present paper aims to relate the opinions of the

students to their role within the university, as part, members of the organization

studied.

2. Objective and method

The main objective of the paper is to study the link between the opinion and

attitudes of the students regarding the values and norms of the university as an

organization. The students are a part of the organization and their attitudes, opinions

and beliefs is vital, even if their role is not permanent because of the limited

schooling period of time.

The method adopted is a research based on questionnaire applied to 300

students from a university. The questionnaire consists of 10 questions and is

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, lupsad@unitbv.ro