The Importance of Organizational Culture for Sustainable Development

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the importance of organizational culture for sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach - The research is both exploratory and qualitative in nature and uses systematic analysis and generalization of scientific literature. Findings and contribution - The contribution made by this research was reflecting upon the need to add sustainability aspect to organizational culture and how changes of organizational culture for the implementation of sustainable development create a favorable context for changes in employee values and motivation to participate in enterprise development, environmental protection and social development Originality/value - Insofar as organizational culture was not widely discussed from sustainability aspect, our findings extend the understanding and reveal wider approach to sustainable development, observations here provide some insights into possible approaches and further guidelines for research. (c) 2018 D. Zostautiene, D. Susniene, J. Liberiene.