The paper proposes an analysis of the Hungarian Water Inspectorate's organizational culture from micro and macro perspectives, based on a survey within Hofstede's research framework. The paper begins with a description of the Hofstede model, previous Hungarian studies based on it, and the existing micro and macro cultural studies; next it presents the organization in a historical perspective. The major aims of authors' analysis within the above mentioned theoretical framework are twofold: (1) description of a possible cultural typology on regional level for the studied organization; (2) identification of the relevant subcultures within the organization.
A number of studies adopting either Hofstede ́s Cultural Values Survey approach or Schwartz ́s concept of Value Types have documented major distinctions in value preferences between Czechs and Slovaks. The most prominent one has been represented either by the dimension of Masculinity (as constructed by Hofstede) or value type of Achievement (a concept of Schwartz); both defined by similar content, stressing the importance of success, achievement and competence. In this study, we therefore aim to explore this difference in more detail. For that purpose, we contrasted two matched samples of Czech (N=200) and Slovak (N=200) participants representative of the two populations. One of the main findings of the study was that several items were interpreted quite differently both within and across the countries. This prompted us to look in more detail at the four items that make up the MAS index. Our results, based on participants ́ responses to VSM2013 and PVQ21 and their demographic information, suggest that factors such as religious affiliation, age, gender and residence size were not major predictors of cross-cultural differences in Masculinity, but rather this single item on Hofstede's VSM 2013 questionnaire. One theoretical possibility brought about by our findings is that while the dimension of Masculinity might be culturally universal, the items devised to measure it could have culture-specific content.
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