Ivan Malbašić

• Ph.D. in Economic and Business Sciences
• Professor (Associate) at University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics

In recent decades, scientists have researched how to develop employees’ positive attitudes and have shown how these attitudes are correlated with each other. In this paper, attention is paid to examining the relationship between organizational com- mitment, employee engagement, and organizational citizenship behavior in small Croatian companies. Th...

This paper examines Croatian national culture value dimensions, employee leadership behavior preferences, and their relationships. The analysis confirms Croatia’s cultural homogeneity revealing no statistically notable cultural difference between its two main regions (Adriatic and Continental Croatia). The research highlights cultural inclination t...

This paper analyzes the link between individual differences and job attitudes with organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) that contributes to the increasing success of the organization. Employees who have more experience helping new employees contribute to increasing their productivity, thus increasing the overall efficiency of the workgroup. Th...

Posljednjih godina sve se više prepoznaje uloga organizacijskih vrijednosti u poslovanju jer one povezuju sve segmente poslovanja te utječu na oblikovanje ciljeva i poslovne strategije organizacije. Suvremeni menadžment zato sve veću pažnju pridaje upravljanju organizacijskim vrijednostima. Cilj ovog rada je prikazati i usporediti deklarativne, odn...

Examples of successful purpose-driven organizations show that corporate and personal purposes both play a crucial role in building high levels of unity, which arises from a genuine connection between the individual and the organization. Built upon recent research on plural identity and authenticity at work, we analyze the essence of this connection...

The in-depth interview, as an instrument of exploratory research for collecting primary data, is one of frequently used method for conducting qualitative research in social sciences. Given that the in-depth interview is carried out for collecting data that goes into "depth" of the research, it is considered as a very useful method for identifying s...

This paper proposes a performance measurement system (PMS) based on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) that requires only 25 common key performance indictors (KPIs), which are characterized by their easiness to collect, in turn making the PMS an affordable instrument for all types of organizations, regardless of their resource availability. This is parti...

This study introduces the concept of Institutional Compensation Logics, which suggests that organizations can dynamically balance coexisting local and global logics, through a process known as the ‘paradox of embedded action’. Through this process, managers can gradually adapt institutional logics to the global environment, even if their actions, i...

The purpose of this article is to clarify whether congruence between espoused and attributed organizational values (CEAOV) in contemporary business circumstances is a necessity or just ‘nice to have’. Accordingly, two objectives are formulated: (a) to investigate whether CEAOV has a direct impact on organizational effectiveness and (b) to assess th...

Poglavlje se sastoji od sljedećih podpoglavlja: Funkcije i zadatci organizacijskih vrijednosti ; Poslovanje temeljeno na vrijednostima ; Utjecaj organizacijskih vrijednosti na poslovanje ; Uravnoteženost organizacijskih vrijednosti. KLJUČNE RIJEČI: Funkcije organizacijskih vrijednosti ; poslovanje temeljeno na vrijednostima ; uravnoteženost organiz...

Poglavlje se sastoji od sljedećih podpoglavlja: Prepoznavanje organizacijskih vrijednosti ; Razvoj organizacijskih vrijednosti ; Komuniciranje organizacijskih vrijednosti ; Održavanje organizacijskih vrijednosti. KLJUČNE RIJEČI: Prepoznavanje organizacijskih vrijednosti ; razvoj organizacijskih vrijednosti ; komuniciranje organizacijskih vrijednost...

Poglavlje se sastoji od sljedećih podpoglavlja: Pojam i definiranje organizacijskih vrijednosti ; Organizacijske vrijednosti u kontekstu strateškog menadžmenta ; Vrste organizacijskih vrijednosti. KLJUČNE RIJEČI: Organizacijske vrijednosti ; strateški menadžment ; vrste vrijednosti ; Fortune poduzeća.

This research identifies the current practice in managing organizational values in the largest companies at the global level and compares these results with a sample of Croatian companies. In doing so, the key question examined is whether contemporary companies are developing balanced organizational values, meaning that they evenly promote differen...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of a specific category of organizational values on organizational effectiveness. Specifically, the aim of the paper is twofold: to propose a metric scale for assessing the organizational values, and to find the impact that different categories of values have on the overall effectiveness of...

U suvremenim poslovnim uvjetima sve se veća važnost pridaje ključnim elementima organizacijskog ponašanja, a osobito vrijednosnoj dimenziji i njenoj ulozi u poslovanju. Posebno interesantno pitanje odnosi se na usklađenost osobnih i organizacijskih vrijednosti kao preduvjetu organizacijske odanosti, s konačnim ciljem povećanja performansi poduzeća....

Primjena transformacijskog vodstva više nije trend, već uobičajen pristup vodstvu u suvremenom menadžmentu najrazvijenijih svjetskih ekonomija. S druge strane, poslovna praksa pokazuje kako u hrvatskim poduzećima postoji znatan prostor za promociju ovog naprednog pristupa vodstvu. Rad stoga istražuje utjecaj transformacijskog vodstva na zadovoljstv...

Theories of organization and management have offered several concepts and models which indicate that organizational values are an important factor for running organizations successfully. A still unexplained question concerns the creation of balanced organizational values, which can support the achievement of several different and even conflicting g...

The objective of present paper is to discuss the role of balanced organizational values as a predictor of business success in modern business conditions. In doing so, we mention some of the best known and most widely used approaches and models dealing with concept of balanced values. Particular attention is paid to the role of balanced values in th...

Važnost uloge motivacije u poslovanju već odavno je istražena i dokazana kao jedna od ključnih varijabli poslovnog uspjeha. Pa ipak, uloga motivacije zaposlenika u mnogim se slučajevima neopravdano podcjenjuje, što je poseban problem u sustavu javne uprave (javnom menadžmentu) koju tradicionalno karakterizira niska razina motiviranosti zaposlenika....

Organizational values have recently been gaining increasing importance, which is also seen in the fact that they are commonly referred to as organizational foundations. This paper addresses the issue of communicating organizational values in managerial communication. With regards to that, communicating organizational values to employees, customers...

In discussing knowledge management as process for organizing and distributing collective knowledge in organizations with goal of reaching the right information to the right people at the right time [37, 380], important part of it is tacit knowledge. Through an extensive literature review this paper addresses issues of tacit knowledge transfer by pe...

Organizacijske vrijednosti složen su koncept koji se može motriti iz različitih perspektiva, pa tako i s obzirom na njihovu prihvaćenost u organizaciji. Po tom se kriteriju razlikuju prihvaćene, stvarne i željene organizacijske vrijednosti, a kao kombinacija prihvaćenih i željenih vrijednosti ističu se i deklarativne organizacijske vrijednosti. Cil...

Primjeri iz novije poslovne prakse, bilo da se radi o gospodarskim organizacijama ili o javnoj upravi, ukazuju kako se sve više pažnje posvećuje organizacijskim vrijednostima koje određuju smjer za donošenje poslovnih odluka na svim razinama u organizaciji. Sukladno s tim trendom povećava se i broj stručnih i znanstvenih radova posvećen organizacij...

Examples from recent business practice, whether they consider business organizations or public administration, indicate that more and more attention is given to organizational values which determine the direction for decision making at all levels of the organization. According to this trend the number of professional and scientific papers dealing w...

The concept of organizational values has been engrossing to organizational theoreticians and practitioners alike for a long time. However, especially interesting and useful in the field are the works focused on the identification or recognition of organizational values in actual business organizations, since those works can be of great benefit in a...