key concepts about organizational culture

1. Organizational culture
Dr. Amjad Idries

2. Perspectives on culture:
• Managerial.
• Social.

3. Managerial perspective
• It is functional perspective;
• Something objective and acquired;
• With clear set of values, norms and beliefs;
• Integrated single culture;
• Organizations could be classified based on that;
• Consensus is common;

4. Managerial perspective
• Conflicts could be managed by better
communication;
• Culture could be managed and modified,
• Emphasized role of leaders/mangers to make
changes happened

5. Social perspective
• Something subjective with symbolic and shared
things,
• Can’t be measured;
• Continuous process,
• Consider differentiation with many subcultures;
• Interests played important role;

6. Social perspective
• Focus on understanding and study the interactions;
• Oppose groups naturally exits;
• Focus on power distribution;
• More dynamic influence of individuals;
• Reduction of variability of employee behavior
through control (bureaucratic or humanistic
control)

7. Types of culture
• 1/ Power: central power, influence,
functionality and specialty small political
organizations, leaders’ role and power,
personal communication, central control,
web picture

8. Types of culture
• 2/ Role: in bureaucracies, logic and
rationality, specialty, procedures and
rules, job description and hierarchies,
small group take the decisions, position
power, temple picture

9. Types of culture
• 3/ Task: job or project oriented, strength
vary, powers and influences were
distributed, e.g. matrix organization, right
things together, expert power, flexibility,
net picture.

10. Types of culture
• 4/ Person: individuals centered, structure
serve the individuals, consensus about
management system and hierarchies,
autonomy, personal power for influence,
cluster picture

20. What are the implications
of organization design on
the organizational culture?