Abstract:

The paper focuses on exploration of desired organizational culture in healthcare organizations. It introduces the concept of investigations in which attention was devoted to analyzing the important features of an organizational culture that respondents mentioned as suitable for their actual or potential work career. The respondents were students, but also employees of healthcare professions and occupations. Survey was based on the theory of competing values, which is usually widely used for research of organizational culture in healthcare organizations. This approach allowed indicative comparisons with relevant studies published in professional journals. The results obtained revealed preference of Team organizational culture. Low preference were connected with Rational organizational culture. This conclusion is partly different from the findings of foreign studies (even if we take into account the partly different methodological approach).