Academic literature has long recognized the correlation between a company’s organizational culture and its quality performance. The Finnish construction industry is still a highly human powered industry, and thus, organizational culture is seen to have a significant effect on an organization’s efficiency as well. The aim of this study is to examine and determine organizational cultural profiles of organizations in the Finnish construction industry as they are currently perceived and preferred by professionals themselves. In all, 121 professionals working in organizations in the Finnish construction industry were surveyed using the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI). The reliability of characteristics was tested by calculating Cronbach alpha reliability coefficients, and the found differences between the response characteristics were analysed in-depth with paired and independent t-test analyses. The findings show that, on average, construction industry organizations in Finland currently operate with a mixture of clan and hierarchy cultures. Thus, the current organizational culture stresses the point of view of internal focus and integration. However, the organizations desired to emphasize more flexibility and discretion toward individuals. The novelty value of this paper is presenting existing and preferred culture profiles in the Finnish construction industry. These found profiles have the potential to improve management of organizations, which results in better efficiency of the industry through better performance of organizations in the construction industry.

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组织文化：芬兰建筑业的案例

长期以来，学术文献已经认识到公司的组织文化与其质量绩效之间的相关性。芬兰的建筑业仍然是一个高度人力资源的产业，因此，组织文化也被认为对组织的效率也有重要影响。这项研究的目的是检查和确定芬兰建筑行业组织的组织文化概况，因为它们目前被专业人员本身所认可。使用组织文化评估工具（OCAI）对在芬兰建筑业组织中工作的121位专业人员进行了调查。通过计算Cronbach alpha可靠性系数来测试特性的可靠性，通过配对和独立的t检验分析，深入分析了响应特性之间的差异。调查结果表明，平均而言，芬兰的建筑行业组织目前以氏族文化和等级文化混合存在。因此，当前的组织文化强调了内部关注和整合的观点。但是，组织希望强调对个人的更大灵活性和自由裁量权。本文的新颖性价值在于介绍芬兰建筑业中现有的和首选的文化概况。这些发现的资料具有改善组织管理的潜力，这可以通过组织在建筑行业中的更好表现来提高行业效率。