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Organizational culture

Study: Second cycle

Semester: Second semester

Professor: Prof. Ph.D. sc. Dijana Husaković

Section:      Company management

ECTS:          5,5

Exam results

Course content

  1. Introduction to organizational culture
  2. Defining the structure of culture
  3. Theory of cultural harmony
  4. What leaders need to know about brand cultures
  5. Origin, development and changes of organizational culture
  6. Content of organizational culture – cognitive and symbolic elements of organizational culture
  7. Research on organizational culture
  8. The influence of organizational culture on management, organization and performance
  9. The influence of organizational culture on strategy, leadership and structure
  10. The influence of organizational culture on learning, motivation and rewarding
  11. Dynamics of organizational culture: emergence, changes and management
  12. Cultures and leadership through stages of growth
  13. National culture and management
  14. Culture assessment and change management planning

Objective of the course

The aim of the course is to understand the organizational culture as the collective mind of the company.

 

Teaching methods

  • Lectures,
  • seminar papers,
  • presentations and
  • discussions

Knowledge testing methods

  • Two tests during the semester or the final exam
  • Work during classes through presentations and discussions
  • Seminar paper
  • Oral exam (the written part of the exam, making a presentation and a seminar paper are prerequisites for the oral part of the exam).

Competences

To be able to understand the cognitive and symbolic elements of the organization.

Literature

Mandatory reading

  1. Jani ćijević, N. 2013. Organizational culture and management, Belgrade: Ekonomski
    faculty
  2. Jani ćijević, N. 2007. Organizational culture - the collective mind of a company, Novi Sad:
    Prometheus
  3. Žugaj, M., Glavica-Bojanić, B., Brčić, R., Šehanović, J. 2004., Organizational culture,
    Vara ždin: TIVA and the Faculty of Organization and Informatics

Additional reading

  1. Handy, C. 1996. Gods of men and women: changes in the way organizations work, Belgrade:
    Zelnid
  2. Schein, EH 2011. Organizational Culture and Leadership, Boston: Jossey-Bass
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