Effect of organizational values on organization culture elements

The rapid change today?s organizations experience forces them to revise their traditional structures, technologies, rules and values. The organizational culture with the effect of human element, the foremost source to challenge, is an important factor. Organizations have been directed to institutionalize in order to produce solutions to the problems and to keep up with the changes around. The objective of this thesis study is to determine the effect level of organizational values, the power distance, masculine and feminine values, uncertainty avoidance, individualism and collectivism on organizational culture. In the first two sections; organizational values and their dimensions, the expression of culture and organizational culture, the elements of organizational culture, the models and approaches related with the organization culture are examined. In the third section, the results derived from a study on the sample individuals from OSTİM, Ankara to determine the relation between the values and organization culture elements is presented