The characteristics and importance of leadership styles to organizational change are of particular importance for the development of organizational culture. This study aims to test leadership styles and the impact of the correlation between leadership style and organizational culture on the level of employees’ readiness across a range of leadership outcome measures. This study provides empirical evidence for the impact of leadership styles on organizational culture and vice versa. A questionnaire was distributed to 450 employees in private organizations in Kosovo. The obtained results show that organizational culture was a significant predictor for both transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles. Based on the dimensions of organizational culture concerning Kosovar leadership styles (transformational, transactional, laissez-faire), their mutual influence dominates more on one variable and less on any other variable as a measuring mechanism for outputs and their interpretation. The study will help the organizations’ leadership understand that their leading style influences the organizational culture and, as such, the employees’ performance. In Kosovo, the concept of organizational culture concerning Kosovar leadership has not been properly developed, and measures should be taken by private businesses to settle this issue.

Nepotism in the work place has its pro and contra. In this paper nepotism it will be seen as a negative factor in the organization performance, although there are different opinions that nepotism not always has a negative impact for the organization performance. To prove this a research has been done in some companies from Dukagjini Region. Nepotism in itself is not considered a bad think if the companies hire qualified people but the research shows that nepotism in Kosovo companies is a negative factor and as such it negatively influence in the performance of the employees and of the organization. In Kosovo it seems that is not enough and necessary to have a degree and to be super qualified for the job you apply for but is indispensable to know an influential person who will help to find a job. The problem starts with a non transparent recruiting system and you will see yourself led by an unqualified and irresponsible person.

Soft skills in the today organizations are considered to be one of the most evaluable components for success. Soft skills are traditionally considered complementary to hard skills, which are the ability to perform a particular type of task or activity. Given that businesses have different requirements and criteria for hiring workers, the reason for this research is to see how much organizations in Kosovo and Albania give importance to soft skills and how much they require these skills when hiring workers. We conducted this research with primary data, ie through questionnaires, to collect data questionnaires were distributed to various commercial, service and production organization in several cities of Kosovo and Albania. We based this study on Goleman's theory of emotional intelligence. And then to derive the most accurate statistics and results SPSS software package was used. The results of the analysis show that businesses in Kosovo and Albania mainly apply soft skills and consider them important for their development.   Received: 28 April 2020 / Accepted: 23 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021

During the globalization process, countries in transition have faced with different challenges in terms of adaptation in an open

Giving and receiving information about employee performance is something that happens every day within an organization. This process of assessment has a clear goal: to clarify the level of performance the employees have to achieve and the steps they have to undertake to achieve the performance standards. In a normal business environment and a positive organizational culture, they both share their views and perceptions without any barriers and try to do that positively, not threatening, irritating, or judging each on their views. Our article analyses the use of the sandwich feedback technique in public administration as one of the sectors where organizational culture and climate differ from those of the business environment and where the spread of messages is more complicated. Connected to this, we analysed if this technique is the most appropriate technique for communicators who want to transform the business environment and culture.