2. THE ORGANIZATION’S CULTURE
Organizational Culture
A system of shared meanings and common beliefs held
by organizational members that determines, in a large
degree, how they act towards each other.
“The way we do things around here.”
Values, symbols, rituals, myths, and practices
Implications:
Culture is a perception.
Culture is shared.
Culture is descriptive.
3. DEFINITION
According to deal and Kennedy “ a system of
informal rules that spells out how people have how
to behave most of the time”
CHARACTERISTICS:
Risk tolerance
Direction
Unit integration
Management contract
Identity
Reward system
Conflict tolerance
Individual initiative
4. HOW EMPLOYEES LEARN CULTURE/
SOURCES OF CULTURE
Stories
Narratives of significant events or actions of people that
convey the spirit of the organization
Rituals
Repetitive sequences of activities that express and
reinforce the values of the organization
Material Symbols
Physical assets distinguishing the organization
Language
Acronyms and jargon of terms, phrases, and word
meanings specific to an organization
5. FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE
It distinguishes one organisation from the other
It conversations of identity for organisation
members
Facilities that generation of commitment to
something larger than self interest of individual
ones
6. HOW CULTURE AFFECTS MANAGERS
Cultural Constraints on Managers
Whatever managerial actions the organization
recognizes as proper or improper on its behalf
Whatever organizational activities the organization
values and encourages
The overall strength or weakness of the organizational
culture
Simple rule for getting ahead in an organization:
Find out what the organization rewards and do those
things.
7. COMPONENTS OF ORGANISATION CULTURE
1. support orientation
2. Rules orientation
3. Innovation orientation
4. Coordiantion orientation
9. CREATING CULTURE
The vision and functions of organization or creators
of the culture the ideology customers of
organization functions or organization culture
organization develops the progressive ideas and
technological development following good culture in
their organization the mission and mission hard
work and commodity spirit have created display
normal culture for improving the performance
10. MANAGING CULTURE
1. Selection process
2. Actions of top management ( salaries, norms,
promotion , other rewards)
3. Socialization
1. Pre arrival stage ( values attidides, exceptations)
2. Encounter stage ( after joining nature of work, they
discountinued in the stage)
3. Metaprophisis stage ( new employees adopt in this
stage and became comfort
11. ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT FACTOR
There are even such situation that occur May affect
the way a business is operated
Situations can have either a positive or negative
impact on organisation business are called
environmental factors