ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE

(Experiences, Strengths, Weaknesses, Education)

Presented BySusovit Kumar Nandy

Concept:

- Organizational culture is the behavior of humanswithin an organization and the meaning thatpeople attach to those behaviors.

- It includes vision, values, systems, symbols,language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits.

- The ways the organization conducts its business ,treats its employees , customers and thewider community

- Organizational culture is the personality of the organization

- Organizational culture is the workplace environment formulated from the interaction of the employees in the workplace.

Types of Culture:According to Researcher Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

1. Academy Culture

The organization provides a stable environment in which the employees develop and exercise their skills

2. Baseball team culture

This type of organizational culture, not only openly communicates with employees using expressions but also regards its employees

3. Club Culture

In this culture, the employees are required to fit into group, team, and organization

Characteristic:

- Innovation & risk taking

- Stability

- Attention to detail

- Outcome orientation

- People orientation

- Team orientation

- Aggressiveness

Advantages:

- Financial Benefit

At the economic level, a well-developed culture bringsdramatic, sustained increases in productivity andperformance

- Recruiting

A well-developed company culture, clearly stated inpromotional materials, is a powerful recruiting point

- Moral

High moral is a key to success and closely connectedto trust, purpose, team loyalty, pride, and faith in theleadership

- Supply chain

Supply chain efficiencies depend very much oninternal cooperation between multiple functions andlevels and with external suppliers and customers

- Responsiveness to change

A well-developed culture brings a strikingly increasedopenness to change and the desire of employees tomake changes work

- Involvement

People naturally want to be involved and go homeknowing they were appreciated and seen as animportant contributing member of the team

- Leadership

Developing the culture trains managers in peopleleadership skills and gives them a clearer sense oftheir role

- Responsibility

As the culture develops and people take fullresponsibility for what happens in their work areas,problems are solved where they happen and by thoseaffected

- Employee motivation

As the culture builds, managers learn to bettermanage the quality of everyone’s experience, insidethe company

- Satisfaction and happiness

Last but perhaps most important, there are fewthings more satisfying than being part of a well-developed company culture

- Team work

A well-developed culture involves the people whoare affected by a decision in the decision

Functions:

- Culture promote code of conduct

- Culture facilitate recognition

- Culture provide opportunity to set thestandard of performance

- Culture guide and control the employees

Key Thinker:

- Schein (1992), Deal and Kennedy (2000), andKotter (1992) advanced the idea thatorganizations often have very differing cultures aswell as subcultures

- Needle (2004) organizational culture representsthe collective values, beliefs and principles oforganizational members

- Thomas Imerito (2005)

Octopus Model:

Drawbacks:

- Unavoidable

Every small business has a corporate culture,whether an owner is aware of it or not

- Behavior Driver

Any culture, including corporate culture,institutionalizes behavioral norms

- Employees May not Accept it

Employee relationships form a social system and aninformal organization that underlies the formalstructure of a small business

- Tough to Change

The corporate culture gives employees a sense ofidentity and belonging that encouragesparticipation in the company

- Misalignment

The culture provides the means of translatingmission into action

Any Questions

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