Organizational Culture and Change in Sarajevo

Organizational Culture and Change in Sarajevo

Almira, Kulovic

Main aim of this paper is to explain and analyze the importance of organizational culture in an organization, and the organizational change. Paper will define organizational culture, its characteristics, impacts and functions in an organization. Also, it will analyze the organizational change and the possibility of cultural change in an organization. There would be different opinions and arguments about this topic and also the example of Sarajevo company Elektropriveda will be presented. In this paper, both secondary and primary data will be used. Considering the case of Elektropriveda, primary data will be presented and used and secondary data will be presented through various definitions and theoretical part. Established organizational culture has a lot of impact on organization performance and development, and also on creating a competitive advantage of a company. It is very hard to achieve the organizational change especially in the organizations with the strong culture. Paper will try to answer on few questions such as is it possible to change organizational culture and in what ways, and if change happens is it possible to manage it and how? Keywords: Organizational culture, Organizational cultural change, resistance to change, competitive advantage, and uncertainty

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2012-05-31

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