In modern business conditions, organizational culture is recognized as a powerful tool for long-term survival and development of the organization. The purpose of this paper was to research whether and in what way the characteristics of organizations - such as its size, ownership structure, activity, domestic or foreign - influence the organizational culture. Because of continuous and rapid changes and enormous competition, which are features of modern business, the Denison model of organizational culture was chosen because it emphasizes the need for balance between requirements for organizational stability (factors of mission and consistency) and requirements for its adaptability (factors of involvement and adaptability). The survey covered a sample of 1,000 employees and the data was statistically processed using the one-way ANOVA method. The obtained results show the influence of organizational characteristics on its ability to balance the internal and external focus of the organization, its stability, and its ability to change. Likewise, there should be a certain organizational cultural transformation as a response to the paradigm change in wider environment should be a certain organizational cultural transformation as a response to the paradigm change in wider environment.
Tourism in Serbia is becoming an increasingly important economic sector with the potential of further development. This paper identifies the potential of the international conferences market in order to promote tourism. This paper presents a survey of the attitudes and impressions of the visitors of a major scientific conference meeting held in Belgrade this year, which was conducted by analyzing a sample of 175 respondents from different countries. The basic assumptions deal with: the difference in the tourist motives for visiting a certain destination, where on one hand we have the motives of the population of scientists and on the other, the motives of the average population of tourists; the analysis of the destination and the analysis of the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of conference attenders with particular elements of touristic offer. The obtained results were found useful as a better evaluation of the conference and to emphasize it out as a viable touristic product.
Organizational culture is an important research topic of modern management science. The results of research conducted in order to cast light on organizational culture in Serbia are shown in the following paper. Since finding a balance between the demands for consistency of an organization and its required adaptability to change is a major challenge in managing organizations in the contemporary world, the Denison Model was applied to the research. The essence of the model is consisted of four dimensions of organizational culture: mission, consistency, involvement of employees, and ability of an organization to change thus including its need for stability as well as for flexibility. The obtained results specifically point to aspects of organizational culture the advancement of which will improve the efficiency and competitive advantage of enterprises in Serbia, which can serve as useful information to policy creators for making better decisions.
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