Abstract:

In order to meet nowadays requirements such as environment turbulences, hiper-competitiveness, quick management method changes, staff fluctuations or high dislocations of the target capital accumulation, each enterprise must implement new solutions within its personnel policy. One of them is surely human resources variety management. This concept is based on perception and acceptance of differences existing between workers and also on creation of organization culture and systems, which should ensure to all the workers a possibility of adding to realization of enterprise purposes (Hon, Burner, 2000).

Proper implementation of the human resources variety management concept shall affect keeping a balance inside the organization, inclusion of workers into decision-making process and feeling of equality towards all the interested (Cox & Blake, 1991). Variety management is also some king of a response for the more diversified society, customer basis, market structure and also to the general business and performance workers environment.

Changes occurring on the working market and trials aimed for finding universal management methods for control of human resources with different attitudes and behaviors and also the currently seen trend amongst entrepreneurs, meaning perception of the organizational culture role and significance for the enterprise functioning, cause that the research relating to shaping an organizational culture and trials aimed for entrepreneur action modifications must take more and more significance in the business practice and enterprise functioning (Czarniawska-Joerges, 1992).

The article presents introductory research on the organizational culture of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Upper Silesia region.