Relations between employers’ and employees’ perception of organizational culture and the perceived company’s maturity

SUMMARY Why companies achieve different results even working in same market is the question that frequently becomes the main topic in various editions. By researches is proved that major influence to company’s success has those matters that reflect in organization culture: style of management, employee’s value system than modern technologie’s adjustment, organization structure or policy. Hence with reference to W.E. Schneider theory model, this topic is analysed in this master paper work. The other matters that might be an obstacle for organization’s development are inner subcultures and their interplay disharmony. All matters reflect at results both financial and nonfinancial. Consequently here arises the goal of the paper work – to identify whether exists coherence between perception of leaders and nonleaders about organization culture disharmony and company’s maturity level. Three Lithuanian organizations, construction company, organization that offers decisions of engineering development and implementation, and company providing transportation services, took a part in this research. 122 participants were surveyed. For pursuing to test our research hypothesis, we used ourselves created organization culture questionnaire as well we presented questionnaire to evaluate organization maturity level prepared by one Lithuanian consultancy firm. The research results let us to maintain that quantitative organization culture researches are possible in Lithuania. This instrument, following our recommendations for questionnaire correction, might be used by other authors in the future. Research data let to identify what culture dimension dominates in organization, what are organization culture perception differences between leaders and non-leaders and lastly, employee‘s perception differences between present and desirable organization culture. The main research hypothesis proved out. Organization maturity level is lesser at those organizations that has different organization culture perception between leaders and non-leaders. Furthemore, organization maturity level is major at those organizations where present and desirable organization culture dimensions are alike. Irrespective of present organization‘s culture dimension desirable culture were assessed superiorly in all organizations that partook in the research