Abstract:

In order to study processes in organizations such as creating or changing organizational culture, more and more often computer simulations are used. In this study we examined how the density of ties between organization members and the size of non-formal groups affect the creation of organizational culture in context of two mechanisms: the influence of leaders and the organization activities (training). To analyse the dynamics of the transfer of attitudes that are consistent with the culture expected by an organization the cellular automata (CA) model was used. The model is based on local interactions between members of the organization, that take place in the nearest neighbourhood. These groups of close neighbours are represented by von Neumann’s neighbourhood and  Moore’s neighbourhood of radius r = 1 and r = 2.