Kultura organizacyjna w perspektywie nurtu krytycznego w naukach o zarządzaniu [Organizational culture in the perspective of critical management studies]

Sammanfattning: Modern management sciences cope with serious epistemological problems, which are the result of the lack of critical autoreflection in this sciences. This situation especially aplies to the conception and knowledge of organizational culture, where we can recognize a kind of epistemological and cognitive crisis connected with the dominance of one-sided, functionalistic and instrumental approach in the scientific discourse. Knowledge and epistemological assumptions about organizational culture are significant for the quality and the way of analyzing and managing the organization as a kind of complex entity constituted by a human activity. That is why the main subject of this work is the critical reflection about epistemological assumptions about organizational culture - reflection which is conducted in the perspective of "Critical Management Studies". This reflection is strongly focused on denaturalization of the functionalistic paradigm in management sciences in order to constitute an emancipatory perspective. Using deepened theoretical research, the specificity of critical approach in management studies was shown, consequences of functionalistic and emancipatory approach to the organizational culture, and educational conditions upon which there is a possibility to socialize managers to the emancipatory way of participating in the organizational culture. Using empirical research based on the critical analysis of the text and discourse, an epistemological profile and popularity of the conception of organizational culture in Polish and Western discourse was shown. In this work the analysis of Polish and English-language literature was used and it covered mainly scientific books and journals.