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Vladislavs Volkovs
Dr. sc. soc., Latvijas Universitātes Humanitāro zinātņu fakultātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūta vadošais pētnieks
Inese Ratanova
Mg. oec., Latvijas Universitātes Humanitāro zinātņu fakultātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūta eksperte
Organizācijas kultūra Latvijas uzņēmumos etniskajā griezumā
Atslēgvārdi:organizācijas kultūra, racionalitāte, saliedētība, komandas veidošana, sociāli ekonomiskie faktori, ekonomiskie aktori, etniskā identitāte
Organizational Culture in Latvian Companies from Ethnic Perspective
Keywords: organizational culture, rationality, cohesion, team building, socio-economic factors, economic actors, ethnic identity
The authors of the current article set themselves the goal of showing how the organizational culture that has developed in Latvian enterprises and organizations promotes the spread of typical economic behavioural norms and values among Latvians and ethnic minorities. The organizational culture of enterprises ensures the effectiveness of such economic or management activities that implement certain strategies of rational behaviour of economic actors. Therefore, the most important feature of organizational culture is the rationality of its values and norms, which economic actors accept, confirm and implement in their behaviour in the enterprise and organization. An integral part of the research methodology of this article was the theory of rationality as a way of implementing effective social activity and a way of constructing social integration of communities that achieve economic and socio-cultural success, competing with other social actors. The sociological study was organized within the framework of the State Research Programme “Development of a cohesive and civically active society” project “Vectors of societal cohesion: from cohesion around the nation-state (2012–2018) to a cohesive civic community for the security of the state, society and individuals (2024–2025)” (No. VPP-KM-SPASA-2023/1-0002), in 6–15 January 2025. Conducting an online survey on employee cohesion in economic activity in the target group of Latvian employed persons – employees and employers. The total sample in the survey – n=1008. The sample was formed according to gender, age and place of residence quotas. Most of the organizational culture parameters of Latvians and ethnic minorities that concern them coincide, which indicates a high degree of integration of these population groups into common values and norms determined by the economic space in Latvia. However, the content of these organizational cultural features of the Latvian population is related to their attitude towards values that are oriented towards achieving goals, which are determined by the very nature of the economic and production tasks of the enterprise and the organization. In situations that actualize their national and ethnic identity values in the business and interpersonal communication of employees, ethnic differences arise in the understanding of the existing organizational cultural practices. At the same time, the study revealed that the greatest differences in terms of organizational cultural values and norms, existing management practices in organizations and enterprises are related to the level of education of the respondents, gender differences and areas of professional employment.
Saliedētības vektori. Sast., zin. red. I. Kivle, M. Kūlis. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2026, 200 lpp.