Organisation Culture
INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION
Organizational culture is the collective behavior of people that are part of an organization, it is also formed by the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, and symbols, it includes beliefs and habits It’s also the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are taught to new organizational members as a way of perceiving, and even thinking and feeling. Organizational culture affects the way people and groups interact with each other, with clients, and with stakeholders. Organizational culture is defined as a pattern of basic assumptions invented, discovered or developed by a given group, as it learns to cope with the problems of external adaption and internal investigation that has worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore is to be taught to the new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.
Organizational culture is a set of shared understandings, norms, values, attitudes and beliefs of an organization which can foster or impede change. When people join an organization, they bring with them the values and beliefs that they have been taught. Quite often, however these values and beliefs are insufficient for helping the individual succeed in the organization. The person needs to learn how the particular enterprise does things.
A common misconception is that an organization has a uniform culture. However, at least as anthropology uses the concept; it is probably more accurate to treat organizations “as if” they had a uniform culture. “All organizations have culture, in the sense that they are embedded in specific societal cultures and are part of them.”According to this view, organization culture is a common perception held by the organizations members. Everyone in the organization would have to share this perception. However, all may not do so to the same degree. As a result, there can be a dominant culture as well as subcultures
DEFINITION
Organizational culture is the collective behavior of people that are part of an organization, it is also formed by the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, and symbols, it includes beliefs and habits It’s also the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are taught to new organizational members as a way of perceiving, and even thinking and feeling. Organizational culture affects the way people and groups interact with each other, with clients, and with stakeholders. Organizational culture is defined as a pattern of basic assumptions invented, discovered or developed by a given group, as it learns to cope with the problems of external adaption and internal investigation that has worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore is to be taught to the new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems.
Organizational culture is a set of shared understandings, norms, values, attitudes and beliefs of an organization which can foster or impede change. When people join an organization, they bring with them the values and beliefs that they have been taught. Quite often, however these values and beliefs are insufficient for helping the individual succeed in the organization. The person needs to learn how the particular enterprise does things.
A common misconception is that an organization has a uniform culture. However, at least as anthropology uses the concept; it is probably more accurate to treat organizations “as if” they had a uniform culture. “All organizations have culture, in the sense that they are embedded in specific societal cultures and are part of them.”According to this view, organization culture is a common perception held by the organizations members. Everyone in the organization would have to share this perception. However, all may not do so to the same degree. As a result, there can be a dominant culture as well as subcultures