Organisational Culture as Factor Determining the Level of Trust in an Organisation
Organisational Culture as Factor Determining the Level of Trust in an Organisation

Summary/Abstract: The first purpose of the paper was to present the results of author’s own empirical research devoted to assessing the present and expected organisational culture model in Polish SME sector employees’ opinion. Another key research objective was to assess occurrence of some statistically significant dependencies between the declared model of the organisational culture and the perception of the present level of respondents’ trust in relation to their line managers and colleagues. Two research tools were used in the research process: the Organisational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) by Cameron and Quinn and the author’s own questionnaire to assess occurrence and intensity of any dysfunctional phenomena at the work place. Statistical analyses of significant differences between variables were conducted with Pearson’s chi square test of independence. As a result of analysing the factual material gathered during the research, it became clear that a model of the organisational culture does not have a statistically significant impact on the level of trust in colleagues while it affects trust towards line managers in all types of analysed enterprises.

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