Mechanisms of changes of organisational culture in corporate environment

The article attempts to explain the importance of organisational culture in corporate environment. In particular, it highlights certain mechanisms of changes occurring in the organisation in the organisational culture perspective. Organisational culture offers certain standards and values, and it systematises reality, meaning that it highlights what is important and avoids what is irrelevant to the organisation and its employees. Given that, it is a tool enabling identification of opportunities and threats arising from changes as well. Many companies, for instance IBM, Procter&Gamble, Exxon, ABB or Siemens have managed to undergo the change process without changing their developed and consolidated standards and values. The purpose of this article is to diagnose the ways of conscious development of organisational culture in corporate environment, and illustrate the same with the example of selected banks. The article analyses the scientific and the literary output researching the aforementioned issue. It is an introduction to the author's own empirical studies aimed at analysing the mechanisms of changes of corporate culture