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Understanding Organizational Culture

Organizational culture refers to the behaviors and shared meanings within an organization. Founders create the initial culture by hiring employees who share their vision and indoctrinating them with the founders' values and assumptions. Over time, as the organization succeeds, the founders' personality becomes embedded in the organizational culture. All cultures are based on engagement, credibility and accountability. Different types of cultures include authoritarian, participative, mechanistic, and organic. Subcultures within departments can also form. A strong culture attracts and retains talent by engaging employees and changing their views of work, but can also create barriers to change, diversity, and mergers. Employees learn the culture through stories, rituals, symbols, and language. Selection, leadership

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Understanding Organizational Culture

Organizational culture refers to the behaviors and shared meanings within an organization. Founders create the initial culture by hiring employees who share their vision and indoctrinating them with the founders' values and assumptions. Over time, as the organization succeeds, the founders' personality becomes embedded in the organizational culture. All cultures are based on engagement, credibility and accountability. Different types of cultures include authoritarian, participative, mechanistic, and organic. Subcultures within departments can also form. A strong culture attracts and retains talent by engaging employees and changing their views of work, but can also create barriers to change, diversity, and mergers. Employees learn the culture through stories, rituals, symbols, and language. Selection, leadership

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ORGANIZATION CULTURE

ABDULLA SALEEM HAROON I08001873

ORGANIZATION CULTURE

Organizational culture is the behavior of humans who are part of an


organization and the meanings that the people reach to their actions

How organization Culture is created

First, founders hire and keep only employees who think and feel the way they do.
Based on founders vision

Second, they indoctrinate and socialize these employees to their way of thinking
and feeling.

The founders own behavior acts as a role model that encourages employees to
identify with them and thereby internalize their beliefs, values, and assumptions.

When the organization succeeds, the founders entire personality becomes


embedded in the culture of the organization.

Organization cultural dimensions

All the organization cultures are based on

Engagement
Credibility
Accountability

Types of cultures in an organization


Authoritarian culture
There is centralization of power with the leader and obedience to orders and discipline are
stressed. Any disobedience is punished severely
Participative culture
Participative culture tends to emerge where most organizational members see themselves as
equals and take part in decision-making.
Mechanistic culture
The mechanistic culture exhibits the values of bureaucracy
Organic culture
authority hierarchy, departmental boundaries, rules and regulations
Sub culture and dominant culture
Each department of an organization may have its own culture

Benefits and importance of Organization


Culture

Strong culture is a talent-attractor

Strong culture is talent-retainer

Strong culture engages people

Strong culture creates energy and momentum

Strong culture changes the view of work

Draw backs of organization culture

Barrier to Change

Barriers to Diversity

Barriers to Acquisition and Mergers

How employees learn culture

Stories

Rituals

Material symbols

Language

Ways to keep organization culture alive

Selection

hiring of people who have values consistent with those of the organization

Top management

The actions of top management, what they say and how they behave, establish
norms that filter down through the organization

Socialization

New employees are not fully indoctrinated in the organizations culture.


Socialization process that perpetuates culture is the way it is handed down from
generation of employees. Newcomers learn the culture through organizational
socialization

CISCO Organization Culture

Customer based culture

work culture

If a Cisco employee wanted the top management support for an innovative idea,
he had to discuss the idea with an employee decision-making team and get its
assent. If the decision-making team accepted the idea, the top management
gave the green signal.

Southwest Airlines

Building relationships

Artifacts

Thriving under pressure

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