Organizational Culture “Code”: Order Diagnosis of the Ethical-Sensing System

Faculty of Psychology, Saratov State University, 410012 Saratov, Russia

^* Corresponding author: liudmila_aksenovskaya@mail.ru

Abstract

The article presents order approach to diagnosis of organizational culture. Diagnostics allows to single out the dominant suborders, thus, identifying cultural “code”, which is composed of the first letters of the suborder names. In the process of analysis of 18 selected cases of organizational culture diagnostics, which had been carried out within the framework of the order approach to study of organizational culture over the period of time from 2009 until 2018, it was found out that each code is consistently bound to a specific type of task, which is relevant for the organization during the diagnostics period. Six types of codes were singled out, each of them has certain types of organizational tasks to be solved: 1) А-C-F (breakthrough type of activity under conditions of deficit of time); 2) C-A-F (breakthrough type of activity under conditions of ample time); 3) C-F-А (promotes the formation of “corporate religion”), 4) F-А-C (start of activity or its restart); 5) F-C-А (stabilization after a period of extreme activity); 6) А-F-C (organization survival code). It has been shown that understanding the relationship between organization’s culture code and its task allows the organization’s management to consciously take necessary managerial decisions to correct its organizational culture.