QUAESTUS MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL 144 CULTURE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Ramona RĂDUCAN Radu RADUCAN Abstract: Romania is characterized by a low level of universalistic behaviour, correlated with the predominance of particularistic behaviour in all situations, including the field of management. The culture of business organizations is the collective mental programming, based on the national culture, which includes features shaped throughout the centuries up until today, through the participation of all members of each society and period. The particularistic culture of Romanians differs from universalistic cultures, which are however present in most multinational companies conducting their business in Romania. One of the differences regards the way in which professional achievements are treated and appreciated: Romanians praise individual results, while the achievements of the team are given less importance. For the members of universalistic organizational cultures, keeping a promise is essential, while Romanians consider deals optional rather than compulsory. If strict planning is important for the American universalistic culture, Romanians guide themselves mainly according context and collateral aspects. One final difference is to be found in the labour reward system. Romanians tend to be more sensitive to the pecuniary and financial aspects of the professional activity rather than others. A Romanian will generally work harder for more money than for the opportunity to be the employee of a prestigious organization. Keywords: organizational culture, principles of organizational ethics, universalistic – particularistic, collective – individual Introduction: The organizational Level – a Subsystem of the Social Space Given the increasingly diverse associative life in Romania after 1989, with regard to the organizational level as well, in order to ensure the evolution, the development and management of these new structures, diversifying the financial support required for the continuity of the on-going structural reform has become a necessity. On the background of tuning the general social interests to those of separate types of groups and persons, the organizational environment comes across as a subsystem of the social space and as a main way of experimenting new types of social relations.