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Subject. The article addresses the typology of organizational culture as a method of grouping the specific features of organization's culture for further identification of its main types. Objectives. The aim is to review cultural dimensions of various typologies of organizational culture would be correlated and systematized. Methods. The study employs general scientific methods of the systems, logical, structural, and comparative analysis. Results. The comparative analysis is presented in the form of systematization of socio-cultural dimensions. The paper identifies the main typological groups of indicators of organizational culture that diagnose the characteristics of management, of organization, attitude to tasks, relations with internal and external environment. Conclusions. No matter what models and methodology are used, the cultural dimensions have the property of similarity, and different representations of one characteristic of corporate culture can be diagnosed simultaneously by several methods.

Subject. The importance of the research is determined by trends existing in modern science towards the synthesis of knowledge obtained within the framework of individual scientific disciplines, the need to modernize traditional methodological foundations of economic science. Objectives. The purpose of the study is to assess prospects for the application of interdisciplinary methods in economic research. Methods. We employ methods of comparative analysis, the historical method, method of observation and generalization. Results. We unveiled the criteria of methodological consistency of interdisciplinary economic research, underpinned the necessity of interdisciplinary synthesis for effective solutions to modern research problems of economics. Conclusions and Relevance. The developed recommendations on the application of interdisciplinary methodology enable to set and address problems of theoretical and applied economics more correctly.

The article refers to the phenomenon of learning resistance and assumes that individual defense mechanisms have much influence upon its development. Defense mechanisms are considered as a set of actions aimed to the reduction or elimination of any change that threatens the integrity and stability of biopsychic individual. The author's method of defense mechanisms diagnostics is described, along with the field of this method application: defense mechanisms diagnostics, individual profiles for making hypotheses, hypotheses verification in a clinical interview and the following work with identified defenses involved in the learning resistance development.

This article investigates the problem of connection between the academic performance of schoolchildren and their defense mechanisms. The article describes the author's diagnostic method of defense mechanisms and shows the sphere of its application, which is the diagnostics of high schoolchildren's defense mechanisms. The author analyzes the connection between schoolchildren's academic performance and their defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms originate and develop in early childhood; therefore the problem requires further investigation.