Concept and Types of Organizational Cultures of Hospitals

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Author(s): Łukasz Sulkowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)and Joanna Sulkowska (University of Social Sciences, Poland)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 30
Source title: Cross-Cultural Training and Teamwork in Healthcare
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Simona Vasilache (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4325-3.ch006

Keywords: Business & Management / Global Business / Healthcare Administration / Medical Information Science Reference

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This chapter sets out to analyze the problem of defining the concept of organizational culture as well as models and typologies used in reference materials. It presents various issues of organizational culture: paradigms of organizational culture, definitions of organizational culture, and two-dimensional typologies of organizational culture. The single-dimensional classifications present the following dichotomies: 1) weak culture – strong culture, 2) positive culture – negative culture, 3) pragmatic culture – bureaucratic culture, 4) introvert culture – extrovert culture, 5) conservative culture – innovative culture, 6) hierarchic culture – egalitarian culture, 7) individualist culture – collectivist culture. Furthermore, this chapter includes: multidimensional typologies of organizational culture, corporate identity – alternative approach to organizational culture and relations between culture, and structure, strategy, and organization setting. Moreover, based on the quality pilot study, it strives to explain peculiarity of this concept in relation to Polish hospitals. Results of pilot studies of organizational cultures of hospitals in Poland relate to four hospitals in Lodz Province.

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