Studies in area of organizational culture have great importance in objective assessment and improvement of cultural attitudes of members of organizations. On purpose to gain wanted performance outcomes, it is necessary to explore cultural values of members of organization, choose best organizational culture model and to follow it improving performance of an organization. Aim of the study - to identify cultural characteristics of nurses of the Hospital of Kaunas University of Medicine and dependency of these characteristics on demographic factors as well as to apply the best model of organizational culture. Goals: to give concept of organizational culture; to survey cultural characteristics of nurses in departments of Nephrology, Pulmonology, Cardiology diagnostic and the operating-room of Cardio-surgery department of the Hospital of Kaunas University of Medicine and dependency of these characteristics on demographic factors as well as to apply the best model of organizational culture; to apply the best model of organizational culture based on revealed cultural characteristics. Research methodology. Survey has been carried out in four departments (departments of Nephrology, Pulmonology, Cardiology diagnostic and the operating-room of Cardio-surgery department) of the Hospital of Kaunas University of Medicine. The questionnaire of the Dutch scientist Hofstede, modified and adapted for Lithuania, has been used for the survey. Adapted by P. Jucevičienė, Prof., V. Chreptavičienė... [to full text]