Organisational Culture – Modeling Factor of Military Leadership

Abstract

"Organisational culture embodies not only a system of beliefs, values, and attitudes of the people forming the organisation, it is also a formative or shaping factor of its leadership as leadership, in its turn, shapes culture. Leaders are responsible for creating systems on which culture develops and norms are reinforced in the workplace. Culture, in response, influences the organisational environment and the strategies built to fulfil the organisational vision and mission, the policies and processes that allow this process. An organisational culture that promotes excellence, fairness, team spirit, characteristics underlain by open, two-way communication, induces the people formed in such an environment to embrace and promote its characteristics. Inevitably, the military organisation is subject to these functional principles, its members being shaped by the organisation specifics, and military education, as part of this organisation, can make a major contribution to the development of culture and the formation of leaders. We will try to demonstrate these ideas based on the analysis of the specialised studies mentioned in the article, but also on personal empirical observations."