Organizational members responded to four open-ended questions about the organizationÕs culture at two times, six years apart. Results of a content analysis of the responses indicated that organizational values remained stable, despite extensive changes in the top leadership of the organization...

This article addresses the problems related to the formation of organizational culture in the Republic of Moldova. There are reviewed the results of research carried out in the business of producing and conclusions that are made. It highlighted the role of human resources training in...

The article rises the question about cultural (values, mentality) impact on attitudes to innovation. Data on innovation activity in Russia is given in comparison with information about other countries and results of cross-cultural researches of interrelationships between cultural values...

Anecdotal evidence and literature searches suggest that the construction industry is generally portrayed in negative terms; it is conservative, risk-reluctant, unable to produce innovation, and so forth. This 'culture of complaint' occasionally surfacing in talks and writing is examined as what...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine factors that affect knowledge management at universities in Makassar, Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach This study used explanatory research to find the causal relationship between the variables in the model. The unit of analysis was students...

The Romanian organization has a particular reality in comparison to the western organization. This specific feature is determined by the fact that it neither succeeded in separating itself for good from the socialist “enterprise”, nor to make many steps towards the western organizations. The...

Purpose – In the light of an increasing healthcare burden, this paper seeks to offer insight about how intrinsic motivation could play a pivotal role in improving the pre‐existing healthcare service delivery systems by altering clinician behaviour. The paper argues the case for four salient...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the experience as corporate ethnographers working in (and for) a large, multinational company with a remit to study and articulate “the culture of the firm.” Design/methodology/approach – The research relied heavily on...

Purpose There has been increasing attention given to the need to bring risk thinking into the field of HRM. The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of risk in a rapidly changing context, examines the responses being made and indicates the characteristics of resilient and adaptive...

Purpose – To investigate nine organizational dimensions that enable individual learning in hotel establishments and to note interests of tourism professionals to the learning of organizations subject. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire technique was used for the sample of 129 staff...