Corporate culture studies of Polish manufacture companies. The culture as an independent variable.

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to present the selected results of our research that relate to corporate culture of Polish manufacture companies. We based on the idea employed by Trompenaars and Humpden – Turner in their cross national research of corporate culture. In our study we investigated cultural differences between manufactures located in four cities in Poland – Warsaw, Lodz, Poznan and Rzeszow. We were also interested in differences between values and norms that relate to private life and professional life. We completed our research in 55 production companies by using questionnaires that encompassed 440 managers of top and middle level.