Factors of Organizational Culture Change

In the analysis of organizational culture change in furniture manufacturing companies, the focus was made on internal organizational changes that had impacted change in organizational culture. Two main factors, which were used for management and change of organizational culture in the research period can be distinguished in the organization (see Picture 3).

To sum up the research data it can be argued that the appointment of the new CEO produced the greatest impact on the company's organizational culture change. Although the new CEO began to work in the company in September, 2006 it may be assumed that his influence on the organizational culture came out almost one year later. This explains the first step of the research, whereby the answer "neither agree nor disagree" dominated in the number of statements evaluation; these responses showed that employees at that time did not know what to expect from the new CEO. The new CEO began to change the company's organizational structure (cut the number of departments (for example, the sales department was merged with the logistics department), replaced the managers of departments (for example, in personnel, technical service, production departments), and reduced the number of employees in the managerial system (the number of employees in the company decreased by 30%: from 119 employees in December, 2006 to 84 in April, 2008).

Picture 3. Change factors of organizational culture

New technologies, installation of the Navision accounting system, also had an impact on the organizational culture change. As the research showed, introduction of the Navision system in the company was taken quite painfully by its employees since it demanded new skills from them, as well as double accounting in the production department, which required additional time.