Assessment of organizational culture of enterprise university by the model "The cube double c" of R. Goffi and G. Jones's

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Abstract

In work the possibility of an assessment of organizational culture of enterprise university by the model "A cube double C" of R. Goffi and G. Jones's is investigated. Selection of respondents consisted of 50 teaching staff of faculties of management and economy of the Nizhny Novgorod campus of Higher School of Economics: 31 women and 19 men; 5 professors, 27 associate professors and 18 senior teachers. Diagnostics like organizational culture was carried out by means of R. Goffi and G. Jones's questionnaire, studying of resistance to the changes which are carried out in higher education institution — by means of an author's questionnaire. In a research it is revealed that the Nizhny Novgorod campus of Higher School of Economics has communal type of culture that conforms to requirements of enterprise university; one of the psychological reasons of resistance of teachers to the changes which are carried out to the organizations is their discrepancy to the academic values; the weak organizational culture of a campus causes resistance to the carried-out organizational changes. The research has shown that the model of organizational culture "A cube double C" is the adequate tool of an assessment of culture of enterprise university.

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Keywords: enterprise university, organizational culture, Cube Double C model, resistance to organizational changes

Journal rubric: Empirical Research

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2017080202

Funding. This work was supported by the Program "Scientific Foundation of the Higher School of Economics", project № 14-01-139.

For citation: Mkrtychyan G.A., Isaeva O.M. Assessment of organizational culture of enterprise university by the model "The cube double c" of R. Goffi and G. Jones's. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2017. Vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 21–34. DOI: 10.17759/sps.2017080202. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Gerasim A. Mkrtychyan, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of the Organizational Psychology Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, e-mail: gmkrtychyan@hse.ru

Oksana M. Isaeva, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor of Organizational Psychology Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0926-5182, e-mail: oisaeva@hse.ru

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