Researching and modeling the organizational culture of regional competitive machine-building enterprises

The paper is devoted to the modeling of an organizational culture by means of an experimental study using a questionnaire and expert a priori ranking. The influence of an organizational culture on the competitiveness of an enterprise is considered. The a priori ranking method makes it possible to objectively assess the subjective opinions of experts and develop a model of factor rank ordering that fully captures the essence of regional machine-building enterprises. For clarity, the results of the study are laid out in the form of a rank histogram. Experts are divided into two groups: managers and workers, employees. In reliance on their opinions, the ranks of social and economic factors are determined. Following on from the study, the factors that fully captures the essence of this enterprise are ascertained. As a result, organizational culture analysis is carried out. In addition to modeling the system of an enterprise organizational culture, a study was conducted with a view to identifying the qualities of managers. As a result, the state of the organizational culture of regional machine-building competitive enterprises was assessed and ways of improving it were determined. A comparative characteristic of the influence of socio-economic factors on the organizational culture of two enterprises in the region has been obtained. Based on the findings that characterize the organizational culture of two competitive machine-building enterprises, the organizational culture was described from the perspective of management and employees in terms of the main parameters. The conclusion is made on the analysis of the diagnostics of the state of the organizational culture and a number of measures are proposed to improve it. Characteristics of the organizational culture were obtained according to the suggested basic parameters from the standpoint of the management and employees of enterprises.

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