ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES OF THE FITTING BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND HOFSTEDE’S NATIONAL CULTURE INDICES

In this paper we investigated the fitting between organizational structure and national culture dimensions of an IT organization in Serbia and its organizational outcomes such as internal entrepreneurship, job satisfaction and internal motivation. The organization under investigation is a very competitive one on the global computer technology market and has long-lasting and successful business relationships with many world famous companies. The values of national culture indices of employees in this organization are similar to the values of national cultural indices of employees in USA. Organic and matrix organizational structure of the organization has a good fitting with national culture indices (low power distance index, high individuality index, low uncertainty avoidance index) which has organizational outcomes such as high levels of internal entrepreneurship, job satisfaction and internal motivation.