Why we go to work. On organisational culture of Polish companies in the SME sector

• Authors: Jan Czarzasty
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Despite a bulk of literature published on Polish on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), there are very few comprehensive empirical studies available. This paper focuses on the patterns of work organisation and organisational culture in Polish SMEs based on the results of a large survey study (N = 609) of owners and co-owners of Polish private SMEs conducted in 2010–2011. The dominant management style in the SMEs is autocracy, and the prevailing type of organisational culture may be described as a “hierarchy” (as opposed to “community”, which is the other type identified within the enterprises of democratically-oriented owners).

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Forum Socjologiczne
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue 1: Social boundaries and meanings of work in the 21st-century capitalism
• Pages: 133 - 146

Contributors

author

Jan Czarzasty

• Warsaw School of Economics