Culture in the organization context

 

In today’s context  there are dozens of definitions for organizational culture. All of them are different, but not contradictory. According to (Watkins, 2013)  culture can be seen regularly in the behavioral patterns of organization. Aristotle said ‘‘we are what we repeatedly do’’ This view elevates repeated behavior or habits as the core of culture and deemphasizes what people feel, think or believe. ‘We also focus our attention on shaping forces in organizations and so highlight an important question: are all those forces (including structure, processes, and incentives) “culture” or is culture simply the behavioral outputs?’. Cultures are dynamic. In response to external and internal changes, they are long-term and constantly changing. Trying to assess an organized culture is complicated. ‘But it also opens the possibility that culture change can be managed as a continuous process rather than through big shifts’. The culture of the organization must always be educated and developed.

Groysberg et al.(2018) define the culture is the ‘‘silent social order of an organization. It has shaped attitudes and behaviors in a wide range and strong ways. Cultural norms define what is encouraged, discouraged, recognized, or disallowed within the organization. When properly aligned with personal values, drives, and needs, culture can unleash tremendous amounts of energy toward a shared purpose and foster an organization’s capacity to thrive. ‘‘Culture can also evolve flexibly and autonomously in response to changing opportunities and demands. Whereas strategy is typically determined by the C-suite, culture can fluidly blend the intentions of top leaders with the knowledge and experiences of frontline employees’’.

According to (Armstrong, 2009) defined institutional culture is the formulation of informal values, standards, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions patterns, behavior patterns, and behaviors in organizations. Values are what people believe in and how they practice behavior. Norms are the unrecorded directions for behavior. Institutional culture focuses on the attitudes of the things that are taking place in the organization. It is a clear use of such whole or in part from the ethical and business standards.

Each organization is distinct and has a unique culture of organizing groups. The organization is a combination of four kinds of organized culture under one of the main cultural styles. According to research done by (Cameron & Quinn, 1999) develop a organizational culture assessment instrument.




REFERANCES

Armstrong, M. (2009). ARMSTRONG’S HANDBOOK OFHUMANRESOURCE MANAGEMENTPRACTICE (11 ed.). LONDON, United Kingdom: KOGAN PAGE

Cameron, K., & Quinn, R. (1999). Diagnosing and Changing Organizational (Revised ed.). San Francisco, United States: Jossey Bass.

GROYSBERG, B., LEE, J., PRICE, J., & CHENG, J. Y. (2018, FEBRUARY). Retrieved JULY 09, 2018, from HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-culture-factor

Watkins, M. (2013, MAY 15). HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW. Retrieved 07 08, 2018, from https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-organizational-culture

 

Comments

  1. Pasan Wijesekara9 November 2020 at 01:14

    Various cultural practices have being identified over the time and various discussions also found in the subject. Importancy and values of the culture of organizations deliverd in smooth understanding.

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  2. Indika Mediwaka Blogs19 November 2020 at 08:36

    Each organization has it's own culture within them, which has definitely changed within the life span of the organization. People who can influence the company can also change the culture of the organization. Further, it is very true fact that the cultures are dynamic. Well explained.

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  3. Dhanushka Dharmasooriya24 November 2020 at 10:25

    An organization has a unique culture and finding the right people for that culture can make it easier to run an organization. But an organization can increase the growth of the organization by recruiting employees from different cultures. This is because new discoveries can be made through the different opinions of people belonging to different cultures.

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  4. Nafees13 December 2020 at 07:13

    Organization culture should be suiting the organization it should be communicated within the organization and also for the new recruitment

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  5. M. R. M Nishak13 December 2020 at 07:28

    Every Organization has a Culture & every employees need to adopt to the culture of the Org

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  6. Lakshan Ganegoda13 December 2020 at 09:23

    Culture represents the way a group of people behave and the values they share in common. An organization culture is the set of values they share in the company and how they behave. It is important to maintain a healthier culture within any organization since most of the life time of employees are spent in that and the better the culture the better the team works towards the performance improvement.

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