PARTICULARITIES OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENTS IN ROMANIA

The university is a small nation which has it’s own beliefs and values. The culture, image and the personality of each and every higher education establishment are created in the first place by the people that compose the establishment. The study of the culture of an higher education establishment is essential because an organization can’t be ruled without knowing it’s values. The university is a center of research and innovation which forms the professional competences according to the national and European market demands of labor by taking over and applying the evolved knowledge as a source of inventions, innovations and development in the technological and socioeconomically plan, provider of specialized services for the community. The culture of the organization exerts a very powerful influence on everyone which compose it: teachers and non-teachers, beneficiaries teachings thus meaning the whole academic community. It’s effects are not directly quantifiable, but they create a frame which allows to mend the obtained results, the efficiency of the activity and of the academic demarches as well as it’s effective evolution. In order to succeed and resist in the future, in the context of European integration, of the rank of the higher education institutions, they will be needed to utilize direct methods, strategies and structures adapted to the labor market, but also some indirect methods which can have behavior influences, especially in enhancing or if it’s the case, systematic transformation of the culture of the organization. To successfully transform a university in Romania with bureaucratic accents, mostly protected and isolated, inside a flexible institution, frequent able and opened if time is needed, trust and perseverance, but also of an adequate legislation that can answer to the needs of the contemporary society in the context of allegiance to the European space. Surely a change program won’t solve the situation without being accompanied by changes at the structural levels.