Abstract
Increasing the productivity and creativity of knowledge intensive staff members (KIS) is an urgent problem for the firms who desire original value added in their products.Research on the organizational culture and its influence on the productivity of KIS is very important, because the organizational culture affects to a high degree the enhancement and realization of their abilities. Moreover, in the current of research on organizations about productivity, it has new aspects, as it applies the organizations activities which are based on expert knowledge.This article consists of three parts.1) An introduction to the diagnosis of KIS organizational culture, showing the total framework applied to practical management.2) A categorization of the structure of the organizational culture. This is the basis of a questionnaire for the investigation, providing a logical structured frame to seize complex phenomena of the KIS organization,3) Case studies of two firms in the machinery industry. Here, the author points out some organizational problems suggested from the analysis.
